What elements make for a memorable meal? A beautiful table scape? Exotic, specially prepared food like you might find in a celebrity chef's restaurant? Maybe you prefer a home-cooked meal like grandma used to make. Maybe its not about the food at all. For you it might be all about who is at the table with you.
Jesus spent a lot of time eating meals with people. Meals feature so prominently in the Gospels that scholars have commented: ‘Jesus ate his way through the Gospels.’ He ate with the rich and the poor, the 'in' crowd and the outcasts, the powerful and the powerless. Regardless the setting, the guest list, or the price point, the acceptance, love, and grace of God was always on the menu. Jesus' legacy of love at the table is still with us today at the Communion Table. Pull up a chair and "...taste and see that the Lord is good..." (Psalm 34:8)
