Tonight at The Table we will share 2 meals – a simple supper , and then communion.
” ‘To eat this particular meal together is to meet at the level of our most basic humanness, which involves our need not just for food but for each other. I need you to help fill my emptiness just as you need me to help fill yours. As for the emptiness that’s still left over, well, we’re in it together, or it in us.’ Jesus understood this as he presided over what would be his last supper with his closest companions. After this, he went to the garden to pray and he asked his friends to keep watch. His prayer is along these lines: ‘Abba, Father, all things are possible for thee; remove this cup from me; yet no what i will but what thou wilt.’ this tormented muddle of a prayer which the writer of Luke says made him sweat until it ‘became like great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.’ he went back to find some solace in the company of his friends then, but he found them all asleep when he got there. ‘The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.’ he said, and you feel that it was to himself that he was saying it as well as to them.”
(adapted from Listening to your Life and Wishful Thinking by Frederick Buechner)
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