So how do you take your communion? aka street church

So, how do you take your communion?

The phrase kept popping up in my mind as I distributed the sacrament to folks simultaneously being given cups of hot coffee from Dunkin' Donuts.

It was sixteen degrees at Logan Circle and we had gathered for our second "street church" service. The coffee had been intended for our "Coffee Hour" following the service, but it was cold, and for many the coffee was what warmed their hands as I reminded them that the body of Christ really was given for us all.

With each cracked hand that received the bread and each dry tongue that waited for the wafer I was reminded over and over of Jesus saying, "Take and eat...take and eat..."

So we had our second service at Logan Circle, praying the 23rd psalm and the serenity prayer, hearing Dennis proclaim the radical word of God that charity does not begin at home but wherever there is need, giving thanks for the birth of twins born to Arthur's daughter only hours earlier, and hearing the prayer of a son for his mother returning home from surgery, culminating in communion and coffee or coffee and communion, depending on where you were standing.

And, even after all the coffee and danish were gone, and following several attempts to pack up, folks kept coming for the body of Christ, wanting to be part of the body that joined us together.

Dave thought there were at least 100 folks present based on the coffee that was distributed, and somehow, the oneness of it all could be felt.

So, how do you take your communion? I think Jesus might say in whatever way spoke of his presence in the suffering. So, today, it was with coffee and danish.