Monday, October 9, 2017

Thanksgiving dinner … like bread and wine

Morning: Psalm 106:1-18; 2Kings 21:1-18; I Corinthians 10:14-11:1
Evening: Psalm 106:19-48; Matthew 8:28-34

Jesus broke, blessed and shared bread and a cup of wine as a way for us to remember him.  Churches call this ‘eucharist’, or ‘thanksgiving’. Such meals are acts of gratitude for all that we receive by grace (gratis).  Thanksgiving dinner is a sort of ‘eucharist’, an act of thanksgiving … for our loved ones, our life and our land.  Like bread and wine, all we have and all we are is for sharing, because it was never really ‘ours’ in the first place. Thankfulness leads naturally to giving, because grasping at things is not our true nature.  Happy Thanks-giving!

 Graham
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