A Place at the Table

The choir sang an anthem on World Communion Sunday called For Everyone Born (text by Shirley Erena Murray, music by Brian Mann, arranged by Tom Trenney - link here): 

For everyone born
A place at the table
For everyone born
Clean water and bread
A shelter, a space
a safe place for growing

It reminded me of a passage from a letter written by Paul to the Church at Corinth where he admonishes them about their practice of Communion.  From 1 Corinthians 11:20-21:  "When you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord's supper. For when the time comes to eat, each of you goes ahead with your own supper, and one goes hungry and another becomes drunk."

This anthem linked for me the idea (which I should have known) that God prefers a communion that includes everyone - and if some of us are hungry and if some of us are cold and frightened, and have no place to live, then not all of us have a place at the table.