Banquet

I used to pray Your Kingdom come;

praying in the four horsemen and earth

burned and consumed so that we could

rise, meet in the air and sit at the banquet

table of the great feast –

But I've learned that Jesus flipped his wrists

and snapped the tablecloth out from under

the feast, tied it around his neck super-hero

style and descended  to earth, bringing the

banquet with him -

Your Kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Daily bread broken and shared, baked from

wheat harvested from neglected soil and sat

on sparse tables so that it can fill the empty space

inside aching bodies desperate for the kingdom

of God to come

Here.

*Credit to Pastor Mark Tindall of Blue Route Vineyard church in Media, PA for the imagery of Jesus bringing the tablecloth to earth - from a sermon preached on 01/26/13.