Bread Upon The Waters
A personal and inspiring guide to finding sacramental magic in everyday life and attaining a sense of spiritual empowerment in the modern world.. }For Peter Reinhart there is no clear line between bread making and soul making. In this engaging memoir, he traces the many paths hes traveled on his journey toward becoming a spiritual adult. Drawing upon both his humility as a seeker and his authority as an internationally known master baker, he relates the twelve stages of bread making to initiations of the soul that progressively lead one to a richer, more spiritual life. With humor and wit, he recounts his struggle to forge a link between the timeless principles of the Judeo-Christian tradition and other world religions. Ever the pilgrim, he tells movingly of his own search for an inner priesthood, a search that led him to twenty-five years of seminary training and charitable work among an eastern orthodox service order; it was here that he discovered his talent and passion for the innately spiritual craft of bread baking. Bread Upon the Waters draws upon a rich life, one devoted to caring for others and to matters of the soul above all else. tradition of the bread bakerfood for the body and meditations for the spirit. }