Last Supper: Holy self-giving
Communion is like the gift that keeps on giving...
I cherish the communion services we have each Wednesday morning at 11:30 in the chapel. It is a time each week that I remember Christ and experience God's grace. Sometimes it feels like I give and give and give, and it's important to have places we can receive from others - in this instance, the grace of God through communion. I thought Sarah's point was interesting about giving out of a sense of obligation or requirement, feels so different from giving out of genuine desire and joy. Sometimes giving starts out of obligation, but turns into genuine desire - and there's grace there, when that happens! And sometimes we start something out of genuine desire, but it becomes a weighty obligation - and maybe that's when it's time to reevaluate what we are doing and why we are doing it.
What sorts of things to do you do, "self-giving", that come from genuine desire and bring you joy?
- Melanie
I cherish the communion services we have each Wednesday morning at 11:30 in the chapel. It is a time each week that I remember Christ and experience God's grace. Sometimes it feels like I give and give and give, and it's important to have places we can receive from others - in this instance, the grace of God through communion. I thought Sarah's point was interesting about giving out of a sense of obligation or requirement, feels so different from giving out of genuine desire and joy. Sometimes giving starts out of obligation, but turns into genuine desire - and there's grace there, when that happens! And sometimes we start something out of genuine desire, but it becomes a weighty obligation - and maybe that's when it's time to reevaluate what we are doing and why we are doing it.
What sorts of things to do you do, "self-giving", that come from genuine desire and bring you joy?
- Melanie
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