Our Daily Bread

Welcome to Our Daily Bread online!

We invite you to use our site for personal reflection, meditation, and spiritual rejuvenation.  Though the site is still in its fledgling stages, we encourage you to take a look around!  

Be sure to check back soon; the site will offer more and more resources as we publish new issues and expand the our presence on the Web. 

Blessings,

Leah & Kevin, Editors

Who We Are:

Our Daily Bread has been published by the Swedenborgian Church since 1949. Its publication is currently made possible by a fund donated by a church formerly located in Philadelphia, PA.

The magazine's purposes are threefold:

• Personal Devotion
  
• Church Worship
  
• Outreach

We hope you will be inspired by the range of sermons and ideas available on this site and in our print magazine.

Current Issue:
June/July

Dear Readers,

As you can see, Our Daily Bread has a new format. The recent economic situation, together with our desire to use planetary resources responsibly, have led us to streamline our production and mailing systems by switching to a bimonthly format. We appreciate your patience during the interruption in our production.  Most importantly, we believe that our new look and delivery schedule offer a better resource to our readers. We welcome your feedback.

This June/July issue focuses on encountering the divine. The diverse perspectives offered by the sermons herein point to the myriad forms a brush with the Lord can take. Interacting with another person, immersing oneself in nature, reading scripture, praying, reminiscing, even grieving: through these methods and countless others, God’s constant presence with and within us (a presence we all too often forget) becomes evident. At such times, we suddenly feel the eddies and flows of divine providence as it flows around us, carrying us toward the fulfillment of our full humanity and our angelic destiny. As Julian of Norwich wrote of God in her book Showings, “You  never remove your hands from your works, nor ever shall.”

Mysticism may seem strange and esoteric, but at its heart it consists simply of a person’s experiences with the divine. However we may encounter the Lord’s power in our lives, we are all mystics.

        Many blessings,                        Leah Goodwin & Kevin Baxter