Eating Together

Several have asked me about the last couple Communion meditations I shared while leading worship. So here they are.

Eating Supper:We sat eating supper the other night. It had been a bad week. Life, people and circumstances have beaten my heart to a bloody pulp. Our small group sat eating BBQ and Potato salad while passing the cornbread and honey intermittently with the large jug of Iced tea. As we ate, the burdens of the week lifted. As we talked and prayed, the heaviness of my beaten heart slowly eased. It didn’t change the problem. It wouldn’t affect tomorrow morning, but for today, God was allowing my Spirit to be lifted and encouraged. That’s what the church is all about. It’s not about the building, what’s in the bulletin or who is working in the nursery this week although those things are important. It’s what happens between the hearts of the people who make up the church.

A time of gathering to share the Lord’s supper is equally important. It’s not BBQ, potato salad and cornbread but it’s nourishing especially for a wounded battered heart. From a reading of ‘Valley of Vision’ a devotional prayer book,

“In the Lord’s supper I remember his eternal love, boundless grace, infinite compassion, agony, cross, redemption and receive assurance of pardon, adoption, life and glory. As the outward elements nourish my body, so may thy indwelling Spirit invigorate my soul.

Until that day when I hunger and thirst no more and sit with Jesus at his heavenly Feast.