Appropriate Smallness

Significantly, there is another story.  A seemingly smaller story that continues to be told and lived and celebrated, not always in ways that attract a lot of attention, but in ways that are profoundly transforming.  It is a story about the amazing largeness of apparent smallness.  For nearly 2,000 years in places all around the world without much fanfare or press coverage, groups of people on every continent, representing every language and people group, gather together to remember and celebrate the hugeness of smallness. 

As they gather they take a small piece of bread and a cup of juice, not much in terms of quantity, but rich in spiritual significance, and they remember and celebrate the last meal that Jesus had with His followers before His crucifixion.  Emblems representing His body broken for them, His blood poured out for them, shared together in remembrance of what He did and Who He is.  What conventional wisdom would have dubbed a meal that reflected the tragic and premature end of a short teaching ministry, actually became a symbol of something that transformed the history of our world.  That's what we gather to celebrate today.

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