Eggs and Toast Like Bread and Wine
I listened today to a podcast of Carrie Newcomer being interviewed by Krista Tippet on "On Being." In one of her songs, "Betty's Diner," there's a line I love, "eggs and toast like bread and wine." It's in the chorus:
I was thinking we should call our potlucks "Holy Potlucks." What do you think? I've been kind of fascinated lately by the idea of eating together being holy. It keeps coming up. I wrote about Richard Mouw talking about the family meal in his book about Abraham Kuyper, as one way to prepare children for citizenship. It came up the other day in a meeting when someone said that he felt that sharing food was a good way to build community. The need to sit and eat together seems to come up fairly often now.
Good food for thought. Har har.
Here we are all in one placeBack in the days of discussions and arguments in church circles about women in office, I had a dream that stuck with me. In the dream I was serving dinner at my home to a bunch of church friends and I said (well, yelled) at one man, "Don't you know that every time I serve food to you, I'm serving communion?!"
The wants and wounds of the human race
Despair and hope sit face to face
When you come in from the cold
Let her fill your cup with something kind
Eggs and toast like bread and wine
She’s heard it all so she don’t mind
I was thinking we should call our potlucks "Holy Potlucks." What do you think? I've been kind of fascinated lately by the idea of eating together being holy. It keeps coming up. I wrote about Richard Mouw talking about the family meal in his book about Abraham Kuyper, as one way to prepare children for citizenship. It came up the other day in a meeting when someone said that he felt that sharing food was a good way to build community. The need to sit and eat together seems to come up fairly often now.
Good food for thought. Har har.