Shortly after a visit to Israel, I attended a communion service in a large mission home in Holland. On the wall hung a wreath made from a crown of thorns bush, which grows in Israel.  I later draped the wreath over the emblems. The symbolism took on a new power and the bread and wine, with which we are so familiar, a new sense of cost. Jesus’ words in Luke 22 verses 14 – 20 “Do this in remembrance of Me”, as He gave thanks and shared out the bread and the wine, must have been bewildering to His disciples.
Understanding grew later. For us too, if our hearts are open, understanding is a progressive thing.

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“And He took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them saying, ‘This is My body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of Me.’ Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.’” Luke 22 : 19,20. “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us”. Romans 5 : 8 (NIV). Originally, I had planned to portray Christ breaking bread and making Himself known to the two disciples at Emmaus, “and He vanished out of their sight”. In the end I decided to focus right in close on that electric moment of revelation. 

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