The Tree of Life

Here's a paragraph I enjoyed in our reading with Elton in "The Tree of Life."
"God presented Himself to man in the form of food. This can be clearly seen in the Gospel of John. John tells us that in the beginning was the Word, the Word was God, and in Him was life. One day He performed a miracle by feeding five thousand people with five barley loaves and two fishes. Then the people wanted to make Him a king. But He did not take that offer. He later told them that He came not to be a king to rule others outwardly but to be the bread of life to be eaten. He came that we may eat Him. The Lord does not want us to consider how to serve Him, how to worship Him, or how to glorify Him, but He wants us to consider Him as our food. He came to present Himself to us as life in the form of food. We have to take Him as food by feeding on Him and eating Him. "He who eats Me shall also life because of Me" (John 6:57)."
"God's intention is that man would simply take God Himself as his food, that man would feed on God."