Not Every Voice Gets a Seat
On being intentional about what you let in at the table and in your mind. I picked up Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table because of the title alone. It stopped me. Not casually in that way, where you already know something is going to matter before you even open the cover. Because I love to host. I'm the person who thinks about the table, really thinks about it. Who's coming? What I'm serving. How the room feels when people walk in. Every candle, every detail, every little thing that says I thought about you before you arrived. I don't just throw things together. I'm intentional. Who I invite matters. What I serve matters. The atmosphere matters. There's thought, care, and love woven into every part of it. So when I read that title and sat with the image of a table and who gets a seat at it, it hit differently. If I'm this intentional about the table in my home, why wouldn't I be just as intentional about the table in my mind? The who...
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