Lenten Devotional

Healed and Restored, coloured pencil in sketchbook 

Day 42 (Tuesday)  

Carrying a vision of creation healed and restored,       
  we welcome all in the name of Christ.
Invited to the table where none shall go hungry,       
  we gather as Christ’s guests and friends.
In holy communion       
  we are commissioned to feed as we have been fed,       
  forgive as we have been forgiven,       
  love as we have been loved.
The open table speaks of the shining promise       
  of barriers broken and creation healed.
In the communion meal, wine poured out and bread broken, 
  we remember Jesus.
We remember not only the promise but also the price that he paid
  for who he was,       
  for what he did and said,       
  and for the world’s brokenness.
We taste the mystery of God’s great love for us,
and are renewed in faith and hope.  

When have you been a guest at a celebration involving food? How do you feed others? When have you forgiven another? When have you loved another? Where would you be inclined to sit at an “open table”? beside friends? Beside strangers? What does the mystery of God’s great love for us taste like?