Opportunities and Connections

As a family will sit around a dinner table, they will grab hands to say the prayer for the meal. A connection is made in that brief moment that brings them closer together. Each holding a hand, grasped in union with each other and with God—the Father, Son, and Spirit. As a family, they know this will not always be, because kids grow up and leave home. But for this brief moment it is an awesome opportunity. On a Sunday at a nearby hospital, a visit is made with someone who is sick or in extreme pain. Say the person is elderly, their eyesight and hearing are both failing. The person is extremely sick, yet the thought of not partaking in communion with our Lord and Savior on the Lord’s Day never crossed their mind. Prayers are said for the bread and the cup. A connection is made. Again this…