No Longer Quivering
by Nancy Campbell from Above Rubies – Feed the Five Senses
Editor’s note: We’ve not quoted Nancy much lately because she’s been on a single subject for a couple of weeks, just like she did last year over the idea of planting a garden – the importance of having dinner with the family at the dinner table. In this piece she starts out making up new rules about how you serve dinner. Edited out the part where she claims you must use a table cloth, candles and flowers to make the table ‘pretty’. What does she think most stay at home mothers are doing all day? She must think they do very little to add more rules.
To dish up a meal on an un-set table is, I think, a sacrilege. It is even worse to prepare a meal and let everyone eat it at different times and wherever they want– even in front of the TV. You can spend time preparing a lovely meal, but if it doesn’t minister to the sight, it doesn’t have a great appeal. On the other hand, you can sit down to a humble meal, placed on a table that is prepared with dignity and love and it can be a spiritual experience. Proverbs 9:1-2 tells us that the wise woman PREPARES her table.
Even young children feel the atmosphere when they sit up to a delightfully prepared table.
Perhaps you are a mother of young children and you can’t imagine one more task during the busy supper time. It takes all your effort to cook a meal without the extra work of setting a table! However, obstacles are only in our mind. It doesn’t take long and you can teach young children how to set a table properly. It is a basic task for them to learn and they will love to do it. You can make it a competition, as they each have their turn, to see who can set it the most attractively.
Encourage your children to set the table beautifully, not haphazardly. It will make all the difference to your meal.
Did you know that we taste with the eyes as well as the mouth?
QUOTING QUIVERFULL is a regular feature of NLQ – we present the actual words of noted Quiverfull leaders, cultural enforcers and those that seek to keep women submitted to men and ask our readers: What do you think? Agree? Disagree? This is the place to state your opinion. Please, let’s keep it respectful – but at the same time, we encourage readers to examine the ideas of Quiverfull and Spiritual Abuse honestly and thoughtfully.
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