This is the weekend for family and feasting. Following the service, the common question over coffee was “Who is cooking the turkey at your place?”
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This year it’s not us. With a couple of exceptions, we have cooked a turkey for over 30 years. But this year part of our steadily expanding family is doing the job. And we will be the invited guests for a change.
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It’s a good thing to invite others to our table. I spoke to a number of people in our church community who are opening their tables to others for this feast.
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Some of us know what it is like to be a stranger in the community and how much it means when you get invited over for dinner. As a single summer student working in a northern mining community, it was church folks who invited me over on Sunday after church. It was what you did in those places. You invited in the stranger.
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And it’s also part of the faith story. Remember the stranger in the land. Share with them the abundance of your fields. So whether there is plenty or where there is little, may we continue to put our faith into practice and invite one another to the table.
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Burp. Excuse me. Amen.
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Peter
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