I love to have people over for dinner. Entertaining and showing hospitality is such a joy for me. I have always invited friends, family, neighbors and church family over for dinner quite often.
One time, when David pastored a church in Minnesota, we invited one of the deacons and his wife over for dinner. Overall, we had a nice time. There was one little thing that gave me pause. The couple we had invited over had been empty nesters for a while. We still had three of our eight kids living at home. Of course there were things belonging to the kids in our living room because we lived in our house. But it was clean, not cluttered, just clear that a family lived there.
When they walked in, the wife said, "Oh, Tricia! I wish I could be more like you and just not care what my house looks like!"
I giggled and shrugged. What could I say?
A few months later, we got invited to their house for dinner.
We had a nice time, dinner was good and the fellowship was wonderful. After dinner, while the wife was serving dessert, I looked up and saw a mouse run across her stove! I alerted them to it and the husband put gloves on, caught the mouse, and let it go outside.
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I said nothing more about the mouse. The wife did not stop apologizing for the rest of the night.
~Tricia
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