SHARED BREAD
David H. C. Read – pastor of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City – was a chaplain in the British Army and was one of a million Allied troops taken prisoner of war by the Germans in the early days of World War II. In his autobiography, Read recalls the experience of hunger and how that affected his attitude toward thankfulness. “We disembarked inside Germany and spent two foodless days in a barbed-wire pen before being herded onto trains to be shipped to our assigned camps. What I remember about this place was pacing around inside the wire with two majors from my division arguing about the future of the war…” “Suddenly a German sentry perched above us at his machine-gun post finished his breakfast and threw the crust of his sandwich into our pen. I pounced on it quick as lightning. We crouched beside a stone, and measured that crust into three exactly equal parts, which we consumed like…
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