Thoughts the Day Before Communion

Communion

The Lord’s Supper

Eucharist

Tomorrow

In the little outpost of the Kingdom

That meets in Lostine, Oregon

We will break bread

And share the cup

We will hear words we have heard before

And mutter words we have said before

Bread and juice (no wine for us Presbyterians)

Body and blood

And then we will walk out the door, and?

Communion

Community

Common

Commune

Communicate

There is a promise implicit in those word

The promise of something deep

Profound

The promise of union

Of being united with the Sacred in a way that transforms

And changes

Transformed by a love that “just is”                               

That does not come because we are good, and deserve it

Or because we are bad and need it,

But just comes

Transformed by a love that sets us free

So that we may come to the table joyfully, dancing, singing,

Because we have no ground for feeling God does not love us. 

Transformed by a love

A union

A presence

That unites us not only with God, but with one another

Just as the goal of our love for God, and God’s love for us is union

So the goal of our transformed,

empowered,

bread and wine fueled

love for each other

should be union

Where the other’s joy becomes our joy

The others hope our hope

The other’s pain our pain

In communion

There is the promise of being fed

And the promise of becoming food

As Christ feeds us

We feed each other

and find

communion

Eucharist

Thanksgiving!