At the table

The custom of eating as a family at the table is one that perhaps very few maintain. We live in a hurry, all with different schedules, in lots of commitments, absorbed in the eagerness and routine of the day to day. Sometimes one of us has some important and significant event or the need to speak something, but being so absorbed in our own lives does not give us time for that. But it is really at the table where we have possibly, the best conversations, because it is a time to lower the revolutions and open ourselves to communion and the enjoyment of who we are, family.

That happened to the men who met Jesus in the story of the road to Emmaus. The word says that they were having a conversation that had them so absorbed with the news of the moment that they could not recognize that Jesus was walking with them. They even told him, half mockingly as they walked, that he was a foreigner, because he had not listened to the most famous events of the moment.

It wasn’t until they got to the table and Jesus broke the bread that they could recognize who was walking with them. And it is that at the table with Jesus there is communion. That time where you talk to Him and you can become intimate, opening your heart and leaving behind the eagerness and routine of the day to day. Just as you can do it with your family and have fellowship, a value that we must not lose in order to create stronger bonds each day, you must do it with Jesus.

Take the bread and serve your table, break it and give thanks for all that He achieved for you, for his love, for his forgiveness, for his provision every day, for your life and that of yours. And let Him speak to you and tell you the news from heaven for your life. Drink with him the cup of the covenant that your generation reaches and covers it with his grace.

Jesus longs for communion with you every day. He presented himself as the bread of life and said that his body is true food and his blood is true drink, so it implies that he himself served the table. There are no better moments than those of communion with Him, because it is sitting with Him at the table where you can rest and release to receive his peace and his embrace. Start practicing communion every day with your family and also with Jesus. No matter how your day may have been, when you sit at the table, you are drinking and eating from Him and that will mark, without your realizing it, a transformation in your life. Blessings