Sunday, October 6, 2024

Dear Family of Faith, 

This Sunday is World Communion Sunday.  That may, or may not, mean anything to you.  But I would encourage you to consider the desperate need for a Spirit of Communion to wash over the world.  Jan Richardson has written a lovely piece entitled “And the Table Will Be Wide”:

And the table
will be wide.
And the welcome
will be wide.
And the arms
will open wide
to gather us in.
And our hearts
will open wide
to receive.

And we will open our hands
to the feast
without shame.
And we will turn
toward each other
without fear.
And we will give up
our appetite
for despair.
And we will taste
and know
of delight.

And we will become bread
for a hungering world.
And we will become drink
for those who thirst.
And the blessed
will become the blessing.
And everywhere
will be the feast.

I would love to be at that table in the presence of the Divine, the Holy One, the Christ. In that company, I would want to share the table with Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Putin, Netanyahu, and all of you.  Maybe in that company, we could become a living example of Love’s power.

See you on Sunday.

Carter