STORIES ARE LIKE EUCHARIST (Gannaway - March 2025)

 

“Stories are like eucharist,” 

Said Damian Gorman, poet and playwright,

“You break them up, to feed each other.” 

 

How true

And especially true of this weekend away

By sea, sky and stars

The breeze blowing the bonfire like ticker tape

Showering particles of light

All gathering in a bright hopeful flame of joy.

 

Some of us have publicly broken up 

Our broken stories

With nerves and anxiety

With honesty and vulnerability

With fears and tears

That got carried in empathy

Releasing other people’s stories

In ones and twos

And we are fed in the fragility of trust

In brittle hearts caressing 

With the kiss of community

As close to family 

As can be, without the same blood.

Abiding.

 

Abiding in a bigger story

Over 200 years of the Fitzroy story

Over 2000 years of the Son's story

Over 2000 before that of the Father's great big universe filling love story

Delivered now by the Spirit in tears and warming souls.

 

At the core of all of this

Bread and wine

The body and flesh of Jesus

Broken and poured out

For healing and wholeness

Life in all its fulness

10:10.

 

Stories are like eucharist

Thank you.

 

- Fitzroy Church Weekend - Gannaway, March 2025