Dinner Party

As I sat at table with most of the people

I love most in this world,

We celebrated that God is at work in us.

Not that life is easy. We have battle scars

And sorrow.

But we are new creatures, also,

Children of light, with stories of how

God met us, changed us, sustains us.

JFK once quipped at a dinner with luminaries,

This is the finest collection of human knowledge ever gathered,

With the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

I prefer my dinner to either collected brilliance (which we had)

Or isolated genius. Give me food and laughter

And saints to share it with.

Thanks be to God.