Flesh and Blood and Beating Hearts

Dr. Pickett preaches
passionately about community
about flesh and blood and beating hearts
about Your living words  
asking questions
pressing questions
pressing us
out into public spaces
where You did Your work
knitting flesh and blood and beating hearts together
with Your living words

I reflect in the silence
unfocused eyes on stained glass
dreaming of what could be
of what I could be
of where You have called
my flesh and blood and beating heart

I come back to the moment
focused on the chalice
a communal cup
frozen in glass
lifeless
and cold

But I am reminded

The cup of Your kingdom
the cup of Your table
a cup over flowing
with flesh and blood
with a beating heart
and living words

A table set with bread
a table set with conversation
a table surrounded by people
flesh and blood and beating hearts
made alive by Your living words
the people of your new social order
the people You sent out from the table

Out from frozen chalices
and captured words
into a world
of flesh and blood and beating hearts
Thirsty for Your living words

To share the cup
to share the bread
to share in relationships
the flesh and blood and beating hearts
of a people You knit together
of a world You created
with Your living words

This is where
You have called us
the world
the public spaces
where life unfolds
where flesh and blood and beating hearts
encounter each other

To share the cup
to share the bread
to share Your living words
with flesh and blood and beating hearts
to be Your flesh and blood and beating heart
in the world that You knit together