St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

View this email in your browserFood for the Journey“Man is a hungry being.” Thus, the great Orthodox theologian, Alexander Schmemann begins his book, For the Life of the World. He is trying to destroy both the those who spiritualize the material world and also those who see the material world as all there is. He goes to Genesis for this and looks at Adam, born with hunger—he has to eat to live. But he is also hungry for something more—someone like him to share the bread with. Indeed, we are born into this world screaming, both for food and affection.             This week we see Paul hungry, as well. We are not used to that, some might even think that unseemly or demeaning. Paul is the leader; he started the church-planting movement that, centuries later, St. Patrick finds itself a part of. He is controlled, effective, focused, and gets it done. We don’t think of Paul as, well, “needy.” And yet for seventeen verses in our text, we see Paul not ministering to, but being ministered to! He is hungry, ravenous. H