| Recall from Exodus 16 that the miracle of manna came in response to the Israelites' complaints for bread. |
| Year after year, they say that integrating Thailand into the global economy will bring manna to all. |
| Rather, on Friday a double portion of manna fell which was to become the food for Shabbat. |
| They celebrate the Passover, another marker of their identity as God's people, and they no longer have to eat the manna of the wilderness. |
| But, not a drop of empyrean manna falls on my parched lips to assuage the thirst of aeons. |
| Like manna in the desert and the Eucharist, the psalm evokes the joyful knowing of God with our physical hunger. |
