Daily Meditation: Becoming the Living Christ

Becoming the Living Christ - from Henri Nouwen's Bread for the Journey Whenever we come together around the table, take bread, bless it, break it, and give it to one another saying:  "The Body of Christ," we know that Jesus is among us.  He is among us not as a vague memory of a person who lived long ago but as a real, life-giving presence that transforms us.  By eating the Body of Christ, we become the living Christ and we are enabled to discover our own chosenness and blessedness, acknowledge our brokenness, and trust that all we live we live for others.  Thus we, like Jesus himself, become food for the world. For further reflection... "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.  Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'?  I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields!  They are ripe for harvest." - John 4: 34,35 (NIV) Comment on this Daily Meditation. Our summer book discussion is on "Finding My Way Home". Join us!   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community.     Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo.

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