This style of home economy is difficult to find today. In fact, the story that God spreads before us as our diet for this harvest Sunday is so far removed from the complexities of poverty in our society, the issues of world hunger, and the problems of production that it seems a legend, something out of this world. Things like this don’t happen any more. We would hardly want to teach this style of home economy in our home economics classes.

Much to our regret and loss, God seems to have been sent off into space aboard Columbia and left to float there. It would be useless to concern him with our small concerns - those questions that keep popping from our lips like, "What’s to eat? And what’s to drink?" What would he know about it anyway? The God of Sunday morning is the God who tells us in …