This sermon was preached for the (transferred) Feast Day of Hiram Hisanori Kano on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 at All Saints' Chapel, Church Divinity School of the Pacific. The readings for this sermon are: Isaiah 49:8–13, Psalm 42, Ephesians 2:19–22, and Luke 14:1, 7-14. Here is the table, we have taken our seats. Of course the reality is, there isn’t just one table, is there? Aren’t there many throughout our lives, literal and figurative? Isn’t life full of getting up and sitting down, getting invited to this table and excluded from that one? As much as we students like our assigned seats, and Episcopalians our pews, our positions at these multiple tables are always shifting, always in relation to others, always in context. In the first part of this Gospel passage, Jesus is not talking about the heavenly banquet table, but all of those many tables his fellow diners are invited to throughout their lives. And here’s the thing--Jesus does not condemn them for striving for a b