There are almost as many breads as countries - German pumpernickel, Jewish matzo, Indian chapaties, Irish soda bread. For millions of people, bread is essential.

Think of life without it… no morning toast, no sandwiches for lunch or summer picnic, no rolls with the soup, no fried bread with breakfast, no stale bread to feed the ducks!

Harvest festival without sheaves of corn and loaves of bread would not be the same. When we sing "We plough the fields and scatter…" we also sing "Much more to us, his children, he gives our daily bread."

There are two kinds of hunger. There is the physical hunger, which can be satisfied by food. But there is a spiritual hunger, which physical food can never satisfy. Whatever our wealth we have this haunting dissatisfaction, an unsatisfied longing and sense of incompleteness. There is a hunger for truth, for life, for love, which only Jesus can satisfy.