You are exactly what God had in mind
We don’t have to be perfect to be beautiful, just broken open.
One Bread, One Body
One bread, one body, one Lord of all One cup of blessing which we bless And we, though many, throughout the earth We are one body in this one Lord. How many times have I sung these words while taking communion and while others communed at our common table? Bread broken. Poured out wine. Each of […]
Blest be the Tie that Binds
Yes, blest. That’s the way they spelt it in the hymnal I had extracted from its place in the next-to-last pew, at the Church of the Palms, Presbyterian. I am hidden in the back, scrunched behind a pillar in a nearly empty pew the older folks have difficulty accessing. There are a lot of older folks […]
One Table, Many Chairs
Something special happens when we insist on one table with everyone around it. Oh, we may not like everyone there. We may not have seen them in years. We may not even recognize them. But, when the first rule of gathering is that everyone gets a seat at the table, the dynamic changes. It seems […]
The tyranny of the salad dressing aisle
So many choices. So little time. Should we really be grateful? I wheel my cart down the aisle slowly, perusing my options. I know what I want, at least I think I do. Until I see that the flavor I am looking for comes in no fat, low fat, and high test. There are also […]
How heavy is my daily bread?
I love bread. Especially, the apple scrapple from the Great Harvest Bakery. The chewy goodness of baked white bread (whole wheat doesn’t do it for me) mixed with apple and cinnamon. I eat it in great chunks on the way home from the store. Handfuls ripped right off the loaf, crumbs falling all over the […]
A Working Retreat?
Oxymorons…you gotta love them. Verbally puzzling expressions that stop and make you think, because they just don’t go together. Today, I am headed 8 hours south into the mountains of North Carolina to a retreat center at Lake Junaluska. There may be more beautiful and restful places than this, but I don’t know them. Alas, […]
Communion Running
Let no one say that running is not worship. I went for a Communion Run this morning. Yep, right there, as the roadside gravel crunched under my feet, I sang … eat this bread, drink this wine, trust in me and you will not thirst. Works well if you have shortish strides and no place really […]
Who would turn away the bread of life?
“Oh no, I couldn’t,” my neighbor says to my offer of a fruit tart. “You’re SO disciplined,” my other neighbor comments, as she helps herself. I have invited them to my house to share the tarts. I have made them especially for the occasion. Prepared them lovingly, presented them carefully and attractively, included only healthy […]
Sips not Big Gulps Taste Best
I really want to take life in big gulps. But God offers it to me in small sips. So I can taste and see that the Lord is good. I would like just to have it all figured out. You know, what I’m meant to do, who I’m meant to be, how I’m meant to […]