Heart’s Table

One of the kindest things we can do for each other is to only believe what we learn about another person while sitting at their heart’s table. Our polite daily interactions should be held lightly as most of us wear our social masks to work and to shop and to move about the world. Gossip should be brushed away like a menacing fly. Equally, when you hear people discussing your life who last sat at your heart’s table in summer and it’s now fall, do not believe it. Do not give space in your tender heart to the absurd assertion that someone who hasn’t sat with you in this season can know who you are.