Monday's thoughts

"When It's Time To Table Your Dreams"
On Sunday, October 4th we will join other Christians all over the world in celebrating "World Communion Sunday". We will meet at the table and we will recall the final meal Jesus had with his friends before his death on the cross.

At that meal there was the announcement that one of them would betray him. There was a general awareness that the dream was dead; that there were changes coming that hadn't been anticipated. At that meal the disciples pondered there future. Some of them argued with Jesus about what he saw coming. Some of them had advice for him about what he ought to do.

Basically, the dream was dead. The hope had ended at the table and they knew it. At a time when they celebrated their historical moment when they felt God had sent the angel of death to "pass over" their people. At a time when Jesus and his friends remembered the "Passover" and they thought about what was going to happen to them there was an understanding that there would be no "passover" for them.

Sometimes we have to table our dreams. Sometimes we come to realize that we some of what we hoped to accomplish we will never accomplish and we have to back away.

What dreams do you have that need to be tabled; or re figured? Have you ever had to reconsider in light of new circumstances and, in doing so, come to see even better dreams emerging?

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Charles Schuster