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A Lone Diner’s Lament 

April 20, 2025

How I miss the turkey and fixings Lucette used to cook at Easter that we used to eat with friends. I thought of walking across the street and having dinner at Cooper's Gastropub, but how pathetic a figure I would have been having dinner alone at Easter.

My family doctor of more than thirty years tells me to try harder to make friends in the condo building where I now live, but I just can’t. It would probably be easier for me to join a cult whose members frequently dine together. The apostles seldom ate alone and their last supper with Jesus was catered by none other than Allah.

The Last Supper

(Excerpt from Shared Prophets, Boreal Books)

5:111 And when I revealed to the disciples (ordering them through Jesus): “Believe in Me and My Messenger”, they replied: “We believe, and You bear witness that we submit.”

5:112 When the disciples said: “Jesus, son of Mary, is your Lord able to bring down for us a table [spread with food] from heaven?”; he said: “Fear Allah, if you are true believers.”

5:113 They said: “We would like to eat from it so that our hearts may be reassured and know that you have told us the truth and be witnesses thereof.”

5:114 Jesus, son of Mary, then said: “O Allah, our Lord, send down to us a table spread with food from heaven that it may be a festival for the first and last of us and a sign from You; and provide for us, for You are the Best Provider.”

If Allah has to do a miracle for someone to believe and that person later renounces their faith, that person is going to be in for some serious pain in the afterlife, and perhaps this one.

5:115 Allah said: “I will send it down to you, so that whoever of you disbelieves thereafter I will inflict on him a punishment I do not inflict on any other being.”