Always Connected

None of us live alone although there may be days when is seems that there is no one in our life.  The truth is that it is touched by many seen and unseen folks.  Some are as obvious as the clerk who says, "Have a good day!" as we leave with a purchase and others are as invisible as those who pray for us without our seeing them on their knees.   One way to be reminded is to remember during our table blessings the host of unseen folks who worked to get our food to the table.  Few morsels of food go into our mouths that have not somehow been in the hands of another.    

God did not put us here to be alone.  He did not put us here to live thinking that we have no connection to the rest of the world and its people.  The book of Genesis is the story of families.  It is the story of nations.  It is the story of how we live in community with one another.  Sometimes we do it well and sometimes we wish for a "do-over."  Jesus reminded us of the way we live with one another when we inaugurated the holy meal with His disciples.  

The Sacrament of Holy Communion is unlike prayer, or worship, or Bible study, or other spiritual disciplines in that it was set in place as an act for the community.  We do not share the Sacrament alone, but with others.  It is a moment which joins us not only to the Christ, but to others in the community around us.  The Creator made us to share life with one another and to know that we are always connected to one another by the order He ordained from the very beginning.