Today I served communion during a chapel service at Duke Divinity. My side didn’t have very many people so my station moved over next to the center aisle. As one man came up to take communion, I noticed him chewing a piece of bread. Then I realized he had taken communion from the station next to us! In the back of my mind, I wondered if I should serve him again but he already had a piece of bread. Plus, I was so taken aback that I didn’t think to do anything but offer him the cup.
After the service it hit me. Why shouldn’t he have taken communion twice? What if he decided today that he needed a little more grace? Who am I to stand in his way?
Aren’t there days, even weeks, when you wish you could take Eucharist more than once? Aren’t there times you would like to have seconds?
