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World Communion Sunday, October 6, 2013

Imagine the sounds of the Black-Eyed Peas pumping through the speakers of the sound-system in the sanctuary...

One Tribe, one time, one planet, one race
It's all one blood, don't care about your face
The color of your eye or the tone of your skin
Don't care where ya are
Don't care where ya been
Cause where we gonna go
Is where we wanna be
The place where the little language is unity
And the continent is called Pangaea
And the main ideas are connected like a spear
No propaganda, They tried to upper hand us
Cause man I'm loving this peace
Man, man, I'm loving this peace
Man, man, I'm loving this peace
I don't need no leader
That's gonna force feed a
Concept that make me think I need to
Fear my brother and fear my sister
And shoot my neighbor or my big missile
If I had an enemy to {enemy}
If I had an enemy to {enemy}
If I had an enemy, then my enemy is gonna try to come and kill me
Cause I'm his enemy
There's one tribe ya'll

World Communion Day 2010 we did just that and the Pastor came groovin' out in her Robe and Collar and the people were given the words because many would not have known them.  By the end of the service, they would.  In addition, they would understand how that current day jam spoke to the reality of World Communion Day, as we, the church I was part of, wanted to fulfill it in our daily lives. 

The official World Communion Sunday meaning is that Christian denominations across the world recognize their interconnectedness with one another and with other religions.  We took it a step further to see it as the interconnectedness with all people and as we stepped up to take communion - those who were professed Christian or even those who just acknowledged they were at the Lord's table, we did so knowing that we were a part of God's world and were to treat all people as God's children.

Tomorrow, I will break bread with my family, no longer a part of that wonderful church that once was.  And, I will still do so in acknowledgement of being one of God's children knowing that God loves ALL of God's children, Christian like me with all of my Christian brothers and sister and with all others in the world.

Peace & Blessings
Kym



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