"I still can't explain my first communion. It made no sense. I was in tears and physically unbalanced: I felt as if I had just stepped off a curb or been knocked over, painlessly, from behind. The disconnect between what I thought was happening - I was eating a piece of bread; what I heard someone else say was happening - the piece of bread was the 'body' of 'Christ,' ....and what I knew was happening - God, named 'Christ' or 'Jesus' was real, and in my mouth - utterly short-circuited my ability to do anything but cry."
"And so I kept taking communion, unprepared and unreformed. I figured communion would take me, too - wherever I was going."
Yes. That's it. God's holy supper will take you - your life - wherever you are going.
Where is God taking you?
Thank you Sara Miles for sharing this wonderful description of your experience of Christ in the meal. How powerful it is to be invited into that place, around that table, with Christ as host week after week after week. Quotes are from Sara Miles' book, "take this bread", pages 59 and 83.
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