Lunch
time is a time of getting away from work for an hour to feed the body and
refresh the soul. It should be a time of refreshment, but in today's
business climate, and the Church is not immune to this, it often turns into an
hour of business. We take clients out to lunch, talk business, and really
never take that hour to spend connecting with co-workers or friends or even
family if they are close by. What about connecting with the most
important person in our lives? Christ! Many churches have Noon masses
where people spend half of their lunch hour being nourished at the table of the
Lord. If you can't do that, how about spending an hour of quiet
somewhere, anywhere to just take in silence? Eat a sandwich on
a park bench. Eat under a tree. Eat by the Bay. Eat
somewhere where you can reconnect with your God. (Please don't eat in
church cause then your pastor's will get mad at me.) So, sometime this
Lent, make it a point to schedule a business lunch with your most important,
most influential, and most forgiving "Client".
