I just realized it has been over 3 months since I last blogged. It has been a wonderfully crazy busy three months, and I am so grateful to have so many things to fill my time!
It's funny over the years the small things I have found myself being grateful for. Things that in the everyday shuffle are easy to overlook. Today, I find myself especially grateful for the table. Nothing in our house serves more purposes, holds more memories, or has witnessed more Scrabble victories (mine of course) than our table.
It is where we tell our stories, pay our bills, check our Monday folders, enjoy (or turn our noses up) at our food, laugh, cry, laugh some more, tell funny jokes (and some that really aren't funny, but we laugh anyway), talk to God, talk to each other, fold the laundry, forget the laundry, make silly faces, make messes, but most of all, make memories. Our table truly is the heart of our home.
As I thought about the table, however, I realized that not only is it the heart of OUR home, it has been at the HEART of so many things throughout my life.
It's where we CELEBRATE...
and where we CREATE!!!
It's where we carry on traditions...
And where we start new ones...
It's where we rock babies...
It's where we learn to have fun....
And to try to have manners!
It's where we laugh with older generations...
And exchange smiles with new friends!
I am so thankful for the memories made and lessons learned at these tables and so many more throughout my life, but without a doubt the table I am most grateful for is the one prepared long ago, and for the promise it holds. For I know it is not a Methodist table or a Baptist table, not a Church of Christ table or a Catholic table... it is MY table and it is YOUR table.
And tonight my heart is full because of the LOVE at the table!!!
