Chapter 9 Crossing II
Processing her experience of taking communion at St. Gregory's led Sara Miles into another world altogether.
"All of
it pointed to a force stronger than the anxious formulas of religion: a
radically inclusive love that accompanied people in the most ordinary of
actions -- eating, drinking, walking -- and stayed with them, through fear,
even past death. That love meant giving yourself away, embracing outsiders as
family, emptying yourself to feed and live for others. The stories illuminated
the holiness located in mortal human bodies, and the promise that people could
see God by cherishing all those different bodies the way God did. They spoke of
a communion so much vaster than any church could contain: one I had sensed all
my life could be expressed in the sharing of food, particularly with
strangers." (93)
Starting
with her invitation to serve at the Table in St. Gregory's, Sara Miles starts
to realize how she was seeing God in the world.
"It
seemed pretty clear. If I wanted to see God, I could feed people." (93)
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