Daily Meditation: The Body of Community

The Body of Community - from Henri Nouwen's Bread for the Journey When we gather around the table and break the bread together, we are transformed not only individually but also as community.  We, people from different ages and races, with different backgrounds and histories, become one body.  As Paul says:  "As there is one loaf, so we, although there are many of us, are one single body, for we all share in the one loaf" (1 Corinthians 10:17). Not only as individuals but also as community we become the living Christ, taken, blessed, broken, and given to the world.  As one body, we become a living witness of God's immense desire to bring all peoples and nations together as the one family of God. For further reflection... "There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.  There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.  There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all." - I Corinthians 12: 4-6 (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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