My friend Emily has wanted to do a Friendsgiving feast for a few years, and since our small group/community group gives us an automatic group of friends, and we have a space that is bigger than 700 square feet (like Emily and my old apartment), we decided to just do it this year!
We joined up with another small group from our church to have our feast, and we piled (if I counted right) 31 people into our quaint house. We asked our friends to bring a dish to share, and between the 30 of us, we had two turkeys, two hams, three dishes of mashed potatoes, three dishes of green bean casserole, two vegetable dishes, corn, two bowls of stuffing, three bowls of gravy, seven pies, forty mini pies, at least eight bottles of sparkling juice, two jugs of eggnog, two jugs of apple cider, and tons of other stuff I can't even remember!
The evening filled our house with laughter, football on TV, ping pong competitions, telling stories, sharing lessons learned over the years, and getting to know lots of new people!
So here's another lesson on hospitality: just do it. Don't worry about what might get spilled, where people will sit, whether or not there will be enough food, whether or not your sewer system can handle that many people, what temperature the house should be, which window sills didn't get dusted... Just. Do. It.
It doesn't require an elaborate plan to be hospitable. It just requires love and action.
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