In Communion I am undone.

I am taken apart, dis-membered.

My strengths are adrift, powerless.

My pretences are un-covered, laid bare.

I am made vulnerable, cast aside with the crucified one.

 

Forsaken? Never. Yet alone,

in the company of others, in the eternal presence

of God, the Holy one, the wholly One.

The Eucharist re-forms me, tells me again

that my story is part of God’s great story,

my life is woven into the story of God’s people

always on the way to the promised end,

reconciliation with the One beyond and beneath all.

 

Communion reconciles me, re-connects me,

re-shapes me, re-members me.

It tells me again, and again,

that I am a precious child of God

shaped by this story, re-minded of my place,

but more than me, the place of us all

at this table of the One broken

and poured out for the whole the cosmos.

 

This holy meal re-makes and re-unites me,

connecting me again to the broken body of Christ

through the living Spirit that calls eternally

for the reconciliation of all creation,

the broken whole becoming One once more.

 

Jesus, re-member me,

Spirit, re-unite me,

Eternal One, re-turn me

to discover again

my own true self in you.

Re-make me in grace,

through grace,

for grace.

 

Rohan Pryor 18/7/15