Creating Tables of Our Own
As we approach Thanksgiving, I am moved to share this piece by the Rev. Broderick Greer from the On Being Project. A former Episcopal Service Corps member, Broderick reflects on how and why we gather around tables to share food and our selves.
The centrality of food in the shape of Christian life is no different from its influence in the rest of life. If one becomes a spiritual child in baptism, then the bread and wine of the Eucharist is, for lack of a better term, the Gerber baby food of the baptized life. Toward the Eucharist moves the rest of life, and from it flows the whole of life. It is the embodiment of the prayer Jesus taught us, the bread we need for that day and that day only, not a sacramental hoarding of resources better put to use through just distribution.
