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Our Daily Bread Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 955 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Two-year-old Peter sat in the high chair happily devouring his food with his fingers. Then his grandmother said matter-of-factly, “He needs to start eating with a spoon. You don’t want him to graduate from high school and still not know how to use silverware.”

Diane felt insulted, as if her ability as a mother was being called into question. Of course he’ll be using silverware long before then! she seethed. Sometimes her mother-in-law, Lois, seemed so critical.

It took time, but with the passing years and much prayer, Diane learned to love Lois in the ways Paul described in his letter to the Colossians (1:9-10). She learned that loving one another with patience is a mark of growing in spiritual maturity (v. 11). As she got to know Lois better as a person and as a child of God, Diane also needed to forgive her for her outspokenness, just as God had forgiven her (v. 14). And, as she matured, Diane began to better understand and take joy in Lois.

In their last several years together before Lois’ death, the two talked and laughed and made many new wonderful memories for Diane to savor.

Learning to love others in our lives can be difficult. Sometimes personalities clash or others can say thoughtless things. But remembering the patience God has had with us and that He’s forgiven us helps us to do the same.

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0:00.0	Whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
0:07.0	1 Corinthians chapter 11, verse 26.
0:11.0	Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.
0:16.0	Joy in relationship was written by Lisa M. Samra and read by Tony Collier.
0:24.0	1 Corinthians chapter 11 verses 23 through 26.
0:29.7	For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you.
0:34.2	The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks,
0:39.9	he broke it and said, This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
0:47.7	In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood.
0:56.5	Do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me. For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the
1:02.9	Lord's death until he comes. As one, written by Lisa M. Samra.
1:12.9	A seemingly plain table with 13 simple cups divided across separate panels make up the contemporary
1:19.7	painting that they may all be one that hangs in Wolfson College at Oxford University.
1:25.7	Its simplicity actually emphasizes the significance of the event,
1:30.7	Jesus' last supper with his disciples. The most prominent panel containing bread and a cup
1:36.9	representing Jesus is surrounded by 12 individual panels to signify the disciples' presence.
1:43.7	The painting is a beautiful reminder of the
1:46.7	meal where Jesus took bread and a cup to start a new celebration for all his followers,
1:52.0	the practice of communion. And I appreciate the row of empty panels that complete the picture,
1:57.9	because the space seems to invite the viewer to join them at the table.
2:01.5	In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul encourages us that whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup,
2:08.5	you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Everyone who believes that Jesus' death and
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