🌒 Monday Meditation
To Gather Is to Resist
🌒 Monday Meditation: To Gather Is to Resist
There is something sacred
about putting a table between you and the empire.
About breaking bread
in the presence of wounds.
About saying:
This story is not over.
This body is not forgotten.
This moment will not be swallowed by silence.
Last week, we remembered Jesus the Jew.
This week, we remember the table.
The Passover table.
The Upper Room table.
The communion table.
The kitchen table.
The folding table in the church basement.
The table in your home where grief and laughter sit together.
In a world where loneliness has become epidemic,
to gather with intention
is no small thing.
It is design.
It is resistance.
It is resurrection.
Pria Parker reminds us:
“Gatherings should be designed for the people in the room—
not the people we wish were there.”
Jesus knew who was in the room.
He fed them all.
He washed their feet.
He named the betrayal.
And still he gave thanks.
This is what we are learning to do—
as Passover people,
as resurrection people,
as those who are still becoming the Body.
🌾 Omer Week 3 Blessing: The Table and the Thread
This is the third week of the Omer.
Let us count it in wonder.
May this week bring you to the table
that your ancestors dreamed of.
May your bread be warm and your silence holy.
May awe rise like steam from the stories you serve.
May you trust that gathering is a kind of healing—
not to fix, but to feel.
Not to erase, but to re-member.
You are not alone.
You are at the table.
And the table is being set again.