Meditation: A Seat at the Table

Texts: Genesis 1:1 — 2:4a and Matthew 28:16-20

Find a comfortable position and let your body settle.

Take a slow breath in… and a slow breath out.

Again. In… and out.

Let this moment be enough.

You do not need to understand everything about God to be loved by God.

You do not need to have it all figured out.

You do not need to earn your place at the table.

Imagine a table. Three figures gathered around it — luminous, in deep communion with one another. There is an open space at the front of the table. An empty seat. The Spirit's hand rests gently on the table, gesturing outward.

Toward you.

What would it mean to pull up the chair?

Consider the God who made you. Not a distant, solitary sovereign, but a community of love — giving, receiving, flowing. A God who empties out completely and is always refilled. A God who lives not from scarcity but from infinite abundance.

You were made in that image.

Where in your life are you living from scarcity — clinging, protecting, calculating what you can afford to give?

What might it feel like to trust that the center holds? That infinite love is the ground of everything — including you?

The risen Christ says to his disciples — some of them still uncertain, still full of doubt: I am with you always.

Not: I was with you.

Not: I will be with you someday.

Always. Now. Here.

Where do you most need to feel that presence today?

Now pray:

Living God,

you who pour yourself out in love and are always filled again:

remind us that we belong at your table.

Draw us into your abundance.

Teach us to let go and trust the center that holds.

And send us out into the world knowing you are with us

— even to the end of the age.

Amen.

Rest for a moment in this truth:

There is a seat at the table with your name on it.

There has always been.