Each year we invite friends over, roast a turkey, make a few other dishes and let others bring their own. Then we eat. It's great. We're not celebrating anything in particular. Rather, we're celebrating everything that is good. So often we do holiday meals with family, and don't always get to celebrate with friends, and this is a great way to do that. It's great to gather around the table to talk and laugh.
This year, as we were preparing I was reflecting on Isaiah, which I have been reading lately. In Isaiah, and really throughout Scripture, a feast is used to describe what life will be like when God acts to redeem his creation. Pausing like this every year to feast, for me, is like bringing a little bit of heaven to earth now.
Do you have any traditions with friends or family which aren't a part of the church calendar or national holiday calendar?
1 comment:
that's cool! Made me think of my thoughts lately on communion and how it would be cool to make it a more intertwined part of anytime we fellowship with other Christians, especially when having dinner with each other, etc...
like sitting around the table and as part of our fellowship breaking bread in focus on Christ as a group of friends. It seems like the corporate aspect of communion gets overlooked too much...that it all gets focused merely on ourselves rather then on "us"...if that makes sense.
anyhow...I just think it ties in well with what you guys are doing and I like the idea very much.
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