The Family Table...

There was a soft setting of gentle anticipation as the children sat and waited. Something they had known of, but never been a part of was about to happen. As the time drew near questions spilled out and gentle anticipation became excited curiosity.

"Do we go up?

and I stay here?

Is that bread?

Do we use wine?

What are they doing?

Why are we praying?

Does everyone eat?

Will everyone drink?

Why don't we use wine?

Can I have the one in the plastic container?

Why do we wait for everyone?

Can I eat it now?

now?

What about now?

Can I have more?

When will we do this again...?..."

And as we ate the bread, and drank from the cup, a deeper sense of community was known in this believers heart. A sense of sharing the load that others carried; children, elderly, pain, joy, hands opened, heart raised... Pondering all this in ones heart... feelings of complete satisfaction, of surrender, of being known and desiring more. A passing of the torch, a telling of the story, a story of a God redeeming all things in His time. Of a God loving all He has made, ALL he has made. Ancient wisdom, eternal wisdom, childlike faith...

A parents heart could not be filled more than in watching her children participate in the body's act of obedience with the Lords Supper. Taking in Christ Jesus; body, mind and spirit. A light switched on this week as this believer sat with family doing just that. A seal from the Father himself. A resting of His Spirit, dwelling in the midst of us... in each of us.

The Family table. Unity in the Body. Seal of the Spirit on whole families. Whole families in the body. The body sealed and anointed in the ability to do all of this. As the Father makes us each whole, boy girl, mom, dad, family, the body, and to the world. Being filled to be spilled out. Such beauty brings this believers Spirit to humble praise.