• communion: ‘take this bread’

    June 8, 2009

    Posted in: spiritual practices, the gathering

    last night, within our moments of communion, i read from a memoir of a woman truly impacted by the experience of the bread and cup, saying, “Jesus happened to me.”

    She records, “the word (Jesus) was indisputably in my body now, as if I’d swallowed a radioactive pellet that would outlive my body flesh.”  Communion, for Sara Miles, was the beginning of her process to SEE the reality of Jesus.  Because of that moment, that becomes ongoing for her, leads her to SEE the great hunger around her–in her city.  

    HOW DOES HER STORY CONNECT WITH YOU?

    We’ll continue to read from her memoir as we experience communion together.

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    • karawithak said...

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      These excerpts that Scott read last night were deeply impacting for me. I often allow the Eucharist to become commonplace and routine, but these words were reminders that what takes place during the Lord’s Supper is anything but commonplace.

      06/8/09 6:05 PM | Comment Link

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