Communion

On top of a granite mountain in west Texas, seven of us gathered around the elements signifying our shared communion in Christ. The bread and the wine, taken for centuries in remembrance of Christ's death and in anticipation of His coming. It reminds us that the Son of God shares our humanity through the Incarnation, taking even our mortality upon Himself. Having died for us, and having been raised from the dead, He remains accessible to us through the Spirit until that day when we commune with Him face to face.

These powerful symbols of the faith lay before us in a grandmother's best china, resting on a colorful cloth brought home this summer from Kenya. Partaking of the sacrament brings families, friends, near neighbors, and far neighbors to the common table, at which Jesus is our Host.