Last Supper. As usual, the imagination of the Last Supper, like all the Inner Year imaginations, nurtures all souls on a spiritual path whether or not they are practicing Christians.
With Inner Lent, we imagine a personal experience of the fasting of Christ and the overcoming of the three great temptations. When Jesus Christ returns from his solitude in the desert he seeks and finds his companions for his three years. The Last Supper comes at the end of the three years and mirrors the fasting with a final feast and final gathering of the companions.
Imagine your Inner Last Supper today. Imagine gathering your companions for a final feast. Work metaphorically and personally with the elements of the supper, your washing of their feet, the transubstantiation of your body and your blood, and so on. Feel the Christ mysteries awakening in your own self-awareness.
Where is your Upper Room where you would hold your most sacred supper? What does it look like: The secret space in your soul where great inner thoughts form, deep feelings emerge, and selfless intentions arise? The place where you gather images of all the other human souls that have accompanied you, surrendered to what is transcendent in you?
Who are they? Those who you chose because if they weren’t there with you, your destiny would not be fulfilled. Your choosing may not have been that conscious at the time, but in the reflective mood of the Last Supper, reasons may come to light?
I ask you to play with these suggestions and all the Easter imaginations of self. Play! I feel so much of our inner spiritual work is burdened and weakened by a mood of somberness and rigor. As Christ says to his disciples, unless we become as little children we will have difficulty entering the kingdom of heaven.
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Play takes many forms. It may be best defined from within as a spontaneous human expression that relies on imagination and a sense of freedom. Players invent alternative contexts for conversation, visualization, movement, and interactions with real objects. They find release and involvement, stimulation, and peace.
As you play in your contemplation of your last supper, find your freedom in your imagination. This is sacred play. There is nothing of idleness or thoughtlessness in a child’s play.
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