Eating with Jesus “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.” ( Revelation 3: 20 NIV) ( Just like I enjoy eating an ice cream with Benjamin, my youngest son, so I believe that God wants to daily enjoy time eating with us through prayer, meditation, and scripture reading. ) I was sitting at a deli across from one of my African-American friends who told me about his grandmother who grew up in poverty in the Mississippi delta as a very generous, loving and spiritual woman. He recalled how one time he was woken up at 3 a.m. with his grandma screaming. When they ran to her, she just said, “Go back to bed, it was just Jesus who walked in the room.” I then asked my friend when the last time was that Jesus had walked into his room. He sheepishly looked down and murmured, “Last night.” ...