21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, YEar B

How lovely, Lord, how lovely
is your abiding place…”
~Psalm 84:1
 
“The morning is yours, rising to fullness;
the summer is yours, dipping into autumn; eternity is yours; dipping into time”
~George MacLeod
 
Story and symbol are central to the Christian faith tradition. We need art to help us comprehend something of the nature of our creator – an eternal mystery too vast for us to comprehend.
 
The church over the centuries has given us a rich story in scripture; a whole library to which we bring new questions and experience every time we encounter the stories it contains. We come to these stories praying that the Spirit will help us see something new.
 
Jesus offered us the symbol of Bread. He promised that in our memorial of him at table, we would be drawn into his presence. Every time we remember him at table, we bring our hungers—hungers that change over the course of our journey. And we hope, we expect, to be fed in the ways we need.   
 
As the church we are Christ’s body in the world—story and symbol of God’s abiding love for all creation. Thanks be to God that we are given each other so that we might help each other wrestle with our questions, name our hungers, and explore our place in God’s story and our call to show God’s love.
 
Beloved, enter into worship. There is a place for you at the table.
 
Readings:1 Kings 8:(1,6,10-11), 22-30, 41-43 † Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18 † Psalm 84 † Psalm 34:15-22 † Ephesians 6:10-20 † John 6:56-69
 
About the Art: Photograph by Rev. Scott Anderson. Christ’s table at St Andrew Presbyterian Church on Good Friday.

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