#SixWordTable

At church on Sunday, we sang that good old hymn “I Love to Tell the Story.”
But what it the story? We celebrate the Lord’s Supper every week, but what are we really doing here? What is the story of this table?

There’s a popular practice among people who tweet. We challenge each other to tell a story in six words. You might try to tell a six word love story, six word tragedy, or even a six word gospel or a six word bible.

Today I asked myself if I had only six words to tell the story of this table, what would they be?
I wonder what YOUR six words would be? I came up with a number of possibilities before I found one that felt true enough. I’ll read them to you now:

Filled with grace, bread
send me. (ehh, feels kind of clunky)

Receive body/grace,
offer self, service (still clunky, try again)

Belonging here,
I am sent out. (we're getting somewhere)

Room at the table for all (yeah, I like that)

I am home
Jesus is here (on to something...) 

Dear God, Dear God,
Help me. (sometimes this is all I've got when I get to the table)

But here’s the one that I settled on today:

I love you. Tell my story.