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Let's Put a Little Magic Back Into Our Lives by Christa Buswell Thanks to all of you for your enthusiastic support of the Kitchen Remodeling Project and the Cookbook. With luck, given the vagaries of remodeling schedules, we'll have it by late fall: a working kitchen! Why do we need a working kitchen? Because eating together gives us a sense of community, lessens our loneliness, that most debilitating disease of our time. As Rabbi Harold Kushner in his Who Needs God (Simon & Schuster, Fireside edition, 2002) puts it so succinctly: "One of the reasons we find ourselves … in a world full of unconnected people all searching for community is that we have `desacralized' so many of the things which used to add this dimension of religious bonding to our lives. We have taken things which used to be rich in religious meaning and made them ordinary, leaving us to wonder why there is so little magic in our lives. But we can understand that sharing (a meal) under religious auspices was more than a way to fend off hunger. It was a way of making the participants feel that they were linked to each other by the shared meal. Christians will recognize the significance of communion, a symbolic shared meal derived from the Last Supper which Jesus shared with his disciples as a way of not only linking them to God, but to their fellow communicants. (Note the relationship between the words `communion' and `community'.)" That says it all, doesn't it? To get us closer to that shared kitchen, don't forget to shop at Books by-the-Sea this summer. The Bookstore has pledged $500 from its profits to the Kitchen Project. Let us cook together, eat together, bond together in the love of Christ.
Copyright © 2004 St. Augustine by-the-Sea
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