If you have a table at home, it's likely much happens around that table. Or, if you're like me in the past few months, things have piled up on it, like books and magazines and ... "stuff".
I've decided this year to honor my table, at home.
It's so dear to me. It's been in my life now for about ten years, and it's still holding 💪🏾 strong.
This means to invite folk to sit at it, to do rituals around my table, and to have great conversation around it as well.
It was a few weeks before it was actually up and 'present' in my new place. And boy, did i miss it!
I love my table.
It's wooden and large, and it's quite spectacular. I've had friends there, meals there, great conversation and dinners there with friends and family, and it's just been a great gathering place for us. Change has happened at that table.
Marriage work, has been a focus, too. Prayers and blessings have been given as well.
At work I have a table too, and there I receive great wisdom from my peer pastors and chaplains. Unbelievable memories exist as outcomes around that table, and I gather a certain excitement even before I reach it. I've met new people and crossed paths with persons I may have never met had I not sat down and chose to walk this process out I'll never forget some of those conversations as they have given me a spiritual maturity that has helped me recognize what really matters and makes me fulfilled in life.
The fact that so much growth happens has opened me up to new possibilities, and quite honestly it's been making me be quite conscious about the interactions that happens around other tables in my life.
It's so interesting that it's symbolic for the places we receive, refresh, replenish & re-energize - what was once on a tree, is not something I also use to symbolize my personal, professional, and spiritual growth. The fact it's so connected to nature and to my sense of peace and 'groundedness' are symbolic , as well.
What grounds you? Is it similar to an object, like a table? Is it a place? Or a certain feel you get when you have that wonderful sense of nostalgia?
This is my place. would love to know what's yours. Just respond below.
I'll continue to share with you those places and pictures in the next few blog posts.
Below is a pic I took in a park in Tulsa called The Gathering Place. Just sharing it's such a big wonderful, table in an open park and invites community.
( I also simply adore the fact it's outside.☺️😉)
