The Supper / La Cena

In her book, Take This Bread, Sara Miles talks a lot about Jesus and food. In Jesus, "God rose from the dead to have breakfast with his friends." He made himself known when they broke bread together. In one story, he turned up cooking on the beach. In another, he asked for something to eat. Miles says,

All of it pointed to a force stronger than the anxious formulas of religion: a radically inclusive love that accompanied people in the most ordinary of actions--eating, drinking, walking--and stayed with them, through fear, even past death. That love meant giving yourself away, embracing outsiders as family,emptying yourself to feed and live for others. The stories illuminated the holiness located in mortal human bodies, and the promise that people could see God by cherishing all those different bodies the way God did. They spoke of a communion so much vaster than any church could contain: one I had sensed all my life could be expressed in the sharing of food,particularly with strangers.

This Sunday evening, some folks in Cornelius plan to gather to eat together and to intentionally reflect on where we see God showing up in our lives and in the world. We want to cherish all those different bodies. We want to make strangers into friends and see God more clearly and figure out together where we're called to go. And because Jesus spent so much of his time on earth sharing food with his friends, it seems to be a good place to start. If you're here, come join us.

The Supper / La Cena
Cornelius United Methodist Church, 1095 S. Beech
Sunday, May 16th (and every third Sunday), 5:00-7:00 p.m.

P.S. You should read the book!!