sometimes I let my mind ponder what it would be like if all of the people I am grateful for, all of the people who have touched my heart and my life and my mind, could gather around one giant table and share in a meal.
it would be a table that would stretch over continents and countries, mountains and deserts, oceans and lakes.
it would be a table that would hold a multitude of mother tongues, languages that hold and bear and give and take and share and receive and ultimately fail to adequately express anything at all.
it would be a table that would speak of change and transition and sustaining and falling and growing and living even when it takes us in a thousand different directions at a thousand different times.
it would be a table that would sing and laugh and cry and probably look at one other at times with confusion and bemusement and maybe even anger.
it would be a table that would hold little hands and feet, wrinkles, wisdom, naivete, simplicity, complexity, snapshots of seasons passed and seasons to come.
it would be beautiful.
yesterday was a pretty wonderful glimpse at what one part of that table would look like.
And I got to sit in the middle of it, to cook with my beloved sisters, to drink tea with women that I adore, to have a serious debriefing on the Harry Potter movie with my younger brother(a brother by life history rather than blood). To laugh over silly conversations and rejoice in the gift of being together for a few hours.
This morning I woke up at 3 am and was wide awake (thanks never-ending jetlag). I sat in our basement and looked at old pictures from my childhood and remembered.
The connections we carry are worth celebrating because they speak to the truth that we are not alone. We were created for community- to be a part of the Body and to know the joy of right relationship with one another. We were created to live life together regardless of whether the together part is done from opposite sides of the world or next door.
My heart is filled with thanksgiving because Christ reveals himself in ourselves as individuals made into a whole.
Because all good gifts come from the one who has created us for Him and for one another.
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