Friday's Thoughts

"When It's Time To Table Our Dreams"

The Christian faith has its own struggle with the nature of humanity. Are we sinners who have no hope; except through faith? Are we saints who are in the image of God; who can attain great things? Are we both? Are we neither? What is right with us and what is wrong?

We really can't think about fulfilling our dreams until we have some idea who we are and what we are capable of accomplishing. Our greatness and the way we often overcome our incompetence is when we realize the strength we have collectively. Facing our problems sometimes is best accomplished by living out a life that includes the assistance of other people.

Therefore, we are best as Christian people when we realize we don't have to do it all alone and when we know there are others who can help us. Where we find the strength to accomplish that is at the table. We bring our dreams to the table.

We take the bread and the cup and realize that we are the body of Christ and, not only those of us in our church, in our denomination, in our nation, but all over the world. Sunday is "World Communion Sunday". We table our dreams. We bring our dreams to the table and, at the table, we discover our strength and we begin to see our dreams in a wider and larger perspective.

Alan Jones wrote, "When we begin working on our own souls, we discover that we are not self-made. Our identity depends on Another. We cannot make ourselves...but fortunately a wild card has been announced..."

And these words from Henry David Thoreau: "I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his or her dreams, and endeavors to live the life which has been imagined, we will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

We table our dreams. We don't give up on them. We don't postpone them in any way. We come to the table and realize how much we can accomplish together.

Are we saints or sinners? What are we capable of doing collectively that we are not able to do privately?

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I look forward to hearing from you.

Meet you at the table.

Charles Schuster