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Becoming manna
There’s a connection between a desire to care and the offer of food. We’re committed to each other’s survival.
We all live out our lives in the wilderness.
by Frederick A. Niedner
by Ted Wardlaw
What is manna? Is it a Hebrew pun on mah hu, or as Everett Fox suggests, “Whaddayacallit”? Is it mountains of sweet insect excrement, as proposed by some scholars, or the stuff of legend?