Tableware

And here's the other thing about this is, is, and I've used this, I'll give you a similar, a similar example, but you'll get where I'm going with it.

I have often told people when they, they start talking to me about their personal stuff, like their, and when I say personal stuff, I'm talking about their, their little collectible set from grandma's China,

you know,

their gun collection, whatever it is, right? They're personal items.

Back in two thousand twelve, I did a program on my broadcast, Worldview Radio, on what I called the lost art of Christian hospitality.

A couple of years later, I told you my goal for that year, two thousand fourteen, was to start having people over more regularly for dinner in our dining room and using our nicest dishes, our china that Melissa and I got for our tenth wedding anniversary.

I bought it for her for our tenth wedding anniversary.

The, uh, sterling silver, the, the crystal goblets, putting on a really nice formal dinner with family and friends.

And it would be in the dining room, oftentimes with white linen tablecloth and napkins.

And I remember often my mom and dad had people at that table.

And I said that I know, well, couples who have been married twenty-five years, and they still have their wedding china, but it's packed away in boxes.

They've never used it, not once.

I'm going to keep my eye on it.

But overall, you're really learning how to read life, not just bowl in a China shop or like steam train, steamroll, I don't know, your way into things, just busting through.

It's about paying attention.

It's about listening to yourself, listening to your body, listening to your intuition, watching what's going on.