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Due to the risk of COVID-19, we decided to drive - to Idaho. Three days drive out, three days drive back- about ten hours each day. Since nothing very noteworthy appeared to happen during those ten hour drives, the two highlights for me of those driving days were my morning shower and our evening meal.
Those two daily events echo two sacraments: baptism and Eucharist. Each morning as the waters washed over me, I awoke to a new day of life. Each evening I was nourished physically by food and drink, nourished emotionally by the presence of my husband as we offered thanks that we had made it safely though another day.
When I was a child, I tended to think of the sacraments in terms of Jesus’ life - his baptism, his last supper with disciples. And that was good. Now I find I am more often struck by how the sacraments remind me of the sacredness of my own life, of the lives all around me, of all life. As it says in Genesis, “And God saw everything that God had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning.”
My husband and I recently took a trip to visit our son. Due to the risk of COVID-19, we decided to drive - to Idaho. Three days drive out, three days drive back- about ten hours each day. Since nothing very noteworthy appeared to happen during those ten hour drives, the two highlights for me of those driving days were my morning shower and our evening meal.
Those two daily events echo two sacraments: baptism and Eucharist. Each morning as the waters washed over me, I awoke to a new day of life. Each evening I was nourished physically by food and drink, nourished emotionally by the presence of my husband as we offered thanks that we had made it safely though another day.
When I was a child, I tended to think of the sacraments in terms of Jesus’ life - his baptism, his last supper with disciples. And that was good. Now I find I am more often struck by how the sacraments remind me of the sacredness of my own life, of the lives all around me, of all life. As it says in Genesis, “And God saw everything that God had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning.”