Lent Day 30: All Are Welcome

Our story last night, in our last Wednesday service of Lent 2019, was about the tax collector Levi, who followed Jesus, and invited him to a vast banquet, full of other "tax collectors and sinners."

As always, some religious gatekeepers showed up, and wanted to know why.

Why was Jesus eating with sinners?

(The answer is good news for everyone who's a Jesus follower. Because, according to my reading of scripture, "sinner" describes all of us.)

But the theme last evening was welcome.

All are welcome, so come. Come to this table. (You can find the meditation here.)

The poet Rumi says it so beautifully.

"Come, come,
whoever you are.
wanderer, 
worshiper,
lover of leaving,
come.
It doesn't matter. 
Ours is not a caravan of despair. 
come, 
even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. 
Come, yet again , come , come.”

Enjoy this.

And come.