Thanksgiving in August

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Are you busy? Are you important? Do you work on a tight schedule? Are your boundaries well-fortified? These are not, in and of themselves, bad things. But they will become idols if you don’t add something: [obedience to] the scriptural command to regularly, transparently, and sacrificially come together in homes over a meal, gathering with neighbors and brothers and sisters from the church, and welcoming strangers.
— Rosaria Butterfield, An Open Letter to the Hesitant Host

The whole thing is worth a read!