communion...

Today I celebrated the first holy communion in church since all this began. Sad perhaps, but it is during such trying times that God's imminence and Christ's redemptive sacrifice are more deeply valued. As I partook of the holy sacraments today, it was like receiving God's soothing balm onto my wounded soul.

Knowing that God "invites all who love Him and need Him to come to His table", I felt comforted by His acceptance and grace. "All we like sheep have gone astray, each of us turning our own separate ways. We all have sinned and fallen short of Your glory, but Your glory is what we desire to see, and in Your presence is where we long to be."

How marvelous and incomprehensible it is that sinners can actually enter to commune with the holy and righteous One! Furthermore, as we enter through Christ's redemptive act, we become saints, sanctified in Christ Jesus.