While they were eating,
he took a loaf of bread,
and after blessing it
he broke it,
and gave it to them,
and said, “Take; this is my body.”
— Mark 14.22
He gives us himself.
He becomes part of us.
His light fills our cells;
his love moves our flesh.
Let him pour into you.
Taste him; savor him.
Consume him wholly
until you are wholly consumed.
We are in him, and he in us.
We inhabit his body.
We look out through his eyes,
and he through ours.
Now we need not fear death
or anything else:
we can love with courage;
for he loves in us.
Taken, blessed, broken and given:
we become the Body of Christ,
one in Spirit, one in each other,
and one in love: mighty, miraculous love.
Eat, and be filled.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net