taste and see
taste anything
and
in the savor
or simply end of hunger
to know
that God is good
having
made all things for food and
us
that in relationship we might exist
and
when there is enough
to thrive
and not
to discount farming
or
cooking or anything by way of preparation
even the stance we take
the setting
for
a meal
a snack
a drink of water
what
have you
throughout everything to keep us alive
there is goodness
from
a good God
who
first made us that way
and
though fallen
we live and consume
and are nourished
then
to rise
and if it’s bread and wine
let
that be enough
to start
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Psalm 34:8
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I don’t how my friend is yet
cup
cup
of coffee
of Communion wine
of the cool cup of water offered
in arid need
and I don’t think the Scripture denotes
cool
but I like to think of summer
desert comfort in that way
and
which is more important
which meets
the greater need and I guess it is the wine
for sacrament
though
without the water
I think you know there is nothing for the parched
to hear
the better evangelism to meet
the Earthly need
first
and if all in prison
then
we share the words we may
out
of the well of nothingness
we share
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(c.f. the parable of the sheep and the goats, Matthew 25:31-46)
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So Much on One Day
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Yesterday was
Father’s Day
Juneteenth
Corpus Christi
My
The body of Christ
Evidenced
Manifest
In Eucharist
This is important
This is my body
Christ said to disciples
This is my blood
Do this in remembrance of me
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A priest once explained to me
That the change is not molecular
That substance
To the medieval minds
To the makers of the doctrine
Did not mean flesh
As in meat
But substance as in essence
As in presence
Belief and purpose
Inside, all around
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These were believers
And philosophers
Not alchemists
(so much)
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The reason for the bread and wine
Is changed
Our reason to be there in the moment
With a bell
Is changed from bread and wine
To faith
And even penitence
The salvation of the world
At hand
And hand outside as well
As inside we take and ingest
And move with nourishment
Into the world,
After
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A professor told us
Once in class
Of her being in line
At a holy place in western Asia
Then in
Chatting about faith
With a stranger there—she
Was asked
(if not told)
Are not you Christians cannibals?
You believe in consuming
Flesh and blood
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And my prof remembered
As I remember
With remembrance
The details and essence of
Her story
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And is there physicality?
Yes, I think so
Bread, wine
And there is more
And the bell changes things
Things are changed in substance
For the better
Christ isn’t changed
Bread, wine
We are
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