Friends' children are born with little participation from us. People die and are unceremoniously whisked away. We don't sit down with our family and our friends often enough. The organic patterns of life provide us with the chances to find grace, right here in the life that we are living now. That is the beauty and poignancy of ritual, when it is more than going through the motions in order to get on with the real serious business of our lives.
Every supper is the last supper from the point of view of now.