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I had so much fun doing a podcast today about how vital your role as a conductor of beauty and life in your home and table will make to the long term legacy of love that you leave. One of the wonderful things about being a parent of adult children is that they remember home. with fondness and warmness, and they remember the. ways you created life, while wondering if they were paying attention or listening.
Sarah wrote this and it warmed my heart:
“But my parents understood that the world that they made within the walls of our house was what constituted home. So I grew up in spaces framed by art and color, filled with candlelight, marked by beauty. I grew up within a rhythm of time made sacred by family devotions in the morning and long conversations in the evening. I grew up with the sense of our daily life as a feast and delight; a soup-and-bread dinner by the fire, Celtic music lilting in the shadows, and the laughter of my siblings gave me a sense of the blessedness of love, of God's life made tangible in the food and touch and air of our home.”
“It was a fight for my parents, I know. Every day was a battle to bring order to mess, peace to stressful situations, beauty to the chaos wrought by four young children. But that's the reality of incarnation as it invades a fallen world....What my parents-bless them-knew...is that to make a home right in the midst of the fallen world is to craft out a space of human flesh and existence in which eternity rises up in time, in which the kingdom comes, in which we may taste and see the goodness of God.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming
As we look to this very difficult time, people dieing, storms devastating cities, people being killed, it can almost seem frivolous to celebrate. Yet, it is own keeping the candle burning, the light glowing in the darkness that we write beautiful messages on the hearts of our loved ones.
Joy wrote this in my book, the Lifegiving Table:
“Sometimes celebrating, enjoying, and laughing seem almost inappropriate in a world as broken as ours. We look around and see panic on the faces of everyone we see. Tragedies become ordinary. How, in good conscience, can we laugh and celebrate and eat pizza? I believe we must celebrate - because celebration is one of the most effective weapons we have against the darkness of our day. The real grief of the state of our world is the pervasive fear that settles in our hearts.”
― Sally Clarkson, The Lifegiving Table: Nurturing Faith Through Feasting, One Meal at a Time
I hope you will enjoy the podcast today. Greatness is shaped in the hidden moments of life, the repeated rhythms over and over again that shape a life of memories and values in the hearts and minds of our children.
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