# Daily Bread
So we say to God: Give us bread. Not delicacies or riches, nor magnificent purple robes, golden ornaments, and precious stones, or silver dishes. Nor do we ask Him for landed estates, or military commands, or political leadership. We pray neither for herds of horses and oxen or other cattle in great numbers, nor for a host of slaves. We do not say, give us a prominent position in assemblies or monuments and statues raised to us, nor silken robes and musicians at meals, nor any other thing by which the soul is estranged from the thought of God and higher things; no — but only bread!
-St. Gregory of Nyssa
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Now, I have a contact with a society which is appended to a monastic order. He sent me a postcard saying “blessings for the confirmation on Sunday”, unfortunately because of the postal strike I got it after my confirmation on Sunday. In the postcard he mentioned that at one of his meetings there was somebody that goes to my church, who is also in this society… she actually come up to me on that Sunday, and said didn’t X tell you that I was going to talk to you - nope, in fact, I didn’t recognise the name and because I got the postcard after that meet and so I was very much confused. So if you are that person (unlikely) who came up to me that Sunday, then every so sorry about me being confused! I’ll probably say hello to you this Sunday. It was very nice of the guy to send me that postcard <img src='https://www.vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.g