Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:
> In article > ,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:
>>
>>> That is true. We used to belong to a church body that had hugely
>>> attended feasts, but it was usually four or five of us (families) that
>>> ended up bringing most of the food. It wasn't an attempt to show anyone
>>> up, just knowing that there would be a lot of people who were hungry and
>>> we were the families who generally did the most cooking anyway, and
>>> tended to bring lots of hungry young fry with us.
>> There always seems to be a small core of people who do the work and bear
>> the expense. There was an odd situation in my wife's church. There was
>> one family that was very well represented in the women's auxiliary. One
>> of our neighbours, her three sisters, her mother, her aunts and cousins
>> were all heavily involved. Some people were intimidated and got all
>> paranoid that this family was taking over everything. I can understand
>> them wanting to get other people involved. I have a hard time faulting
>> this family for doing far more than their share of the work.
>
> In our case it was just that the other families didn't care for
> cooking as much, or didn't have the family size as a reference for how
> much food to bring. One family that made wonderful food always brought
> a small bowl of whatever it was. It had nothing to do with stinginess,
> it was a huge bowl for their family, it just wasn't that big compared to
> the size of our group. She usually made double or triple what they'd
> eat at home, we just were a big group with lots of hungry children. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Ranee @ Arabian Knits
>
> "She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

And yes... I find goodness in all of her works. She makes me smile.