Dear Kristen, who wanted a new table
Dear Kristen, Remember that time your best friend got a beautiful new dining room table? How she called you right after the furniture store delivery truck dropped it off and asked if you could come over and help carry it into the dining room? Do you remember how jealousy flared up inside of you the minute you walked into her big, beautiful new house and saw her equally brand new, beautiful table and eight matching chairs? How it had that "new furniture" smell and was so shiny without a single scratch? Remember how you felt going back home to your 70's fixer upper house and how ugly your own hand-me-down laminate table seemed when you walked in the door? How tiny your table felt after sitting at that glossy black table for eight? How that jealousy bubbled up inside you, and you felt resentful toward your own self, your husband, and god for the fact that your friend's lifestyle was much more luxurious than your own? In that moment, that table was a symbol of every