Feast

Now thus says the LORD of hosts:
Consider your ways!
You have sown much, but have brought in little;
you have eaten, but have not been satisfied;
You have drunk, but have not been exhilarated;
have clothed yourselves, but not been warmed;
And whoever earned wages
earned them for a bag with holes in it.

Haggai 1:1-8
You made this world to be our feast,
created and laid down in love,
and told your children, come and eat—
We did, and oh, what have we done?

We took and ate, but hunger grew
and burned unceasing in our flesh,
for what we took was not of you,
and all our feasting turned to ash

We planted, but we grew no grain;
we've eaten, but we hunger still.
Our endless labor brings no gain,
our hearthfire cannot warm the chill.

We drink, but cannot lift our hearts;
our gold has nothing good to buy.
There is no end to our false starts;
our thirst is never satisfied.

But all creation is your feast:
We walk the table you have set.
You made us for this eucharist;
you made us for your gift of bread.

Teach us, O Lord, to feast again:
Give us the water that is life.
Give us the voice to say Amen
to all that truly satisfies.

Floris Claesz. van Dyck 001 By Floris van Dyck – The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=150586