Write about a time that you experienced communion without the traditional elements (or write about a scene where this happens). What did you use instead of bread and wine and how was it significant? Do you believe that there can be alternate ways of experiencing communion without the elements that are traditional to use?
Holy Meals
ReplyDeleteWe were visitors from the north.
a continent away.
We came from homes
with bathrooms and bedrooms
and heating and air-conditioning.
We had years of public education
and 401k plans and health insurance …
and we brought enough lunch,
sandwiches and vegetables and apples
for all of us, even our hosts
because we could afford it.
They lived in dark one room homes
on the side of the mountain
with no electricity or bathroom
and no paved roads or banks
or grocery stores or libraries
or cars or running water
and they brought lunch
because they had guests.
And we ate their lunch
their offering
their holy gift
that holy meal
together
and gratefully.
Communion.
Communion indeed. Thanks for sharing : )
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