First Meal

This started as a reflection on Jesus' healing of the ten lepers, today's reading from Luke.  It is one of my favorite stories to preach on.  The reflection did not go there, though.  I am not preaching today.  But I am on the roster a few weeks hence.  So it's not a surprise I've been waking up with possibilities every morning. This morning I am captured by the Da Vinci painting of the Last Supper.  The disciples have made plenty of room for the rest of us at the Table, it seems to me.

I ponder preaching again.

The table in front of me
Is set
With possibility.

The company on all sides

Of the Table

Is good.

We eat

The Last Supper.

We eat

The First Meal ever.

There is always room

For one or two or three more.

Always room.

Heck

One side of the Table

Is completely free.

Y’all come.

There is  

Plenty to eat

At the Last Supper,

The First Meal.

The Table was set

At the beginning

Of everything there is,

Of everything there was,

Of everything

That is to come.