Here at This Table © 1996, 2000 Whitaker

Greetings and continued blessings, my friends. Janet Sullivan Whitaker tells the story of how her then 6-year old son gets a writing credit for this song: “The refrain for the song was sung spontaneously by Max on his way to the breakfast table. His original text was decidedly secular: ‘Eat and be filled/come and have French toast/warm with melted butter/and powdered sugar, too...’ Then he stopped! I so wanted him to go on, but by then he was too embarrassed—and hun-gry… I like the fact that “Here at this Table” was born in an ordinary family moment, at our family breakfast table. It can be a cluttered and crowded place, this table, and a myriad of life-events unfold here without much to-do. But isn’t it also here that all the really important things happen? Not unlike the table of the Lord, around which we gather to be filled, and to become ourselves the living Body of Christ.” It’s not such a leap from Max’s words to the final version of the refrain. Until we can sing together again… "Here at This Table".