April 21, 2006

dinner

I heard this on Oprah. If you could have a dinner with ten people who have died, who would you invite and why?

My dinner guests-

One: My husband's father - because he must have been awesome, just look at TT.

Two: Christopher Columbus - what courage to cross the blue in the hopes that his theories about a new continent were right and he made that journey in faith that God was leading him.

Three: Rahab - the Bible whore who found grace and faith with God (and whose children are in the lineage of Jesus Christ).

Four: David, King of Israel - who made so sinned so much, yet still was known as a man whose heart was after the Lord.

Five: Abigail - who was married to a fool, who became David's wife, yet did not get the honor of having her children in the lineage of Christ.

Six: Moses - who led a stubborn and rebellious and ungrateful group to the Promised Land, yet, b/c of his anger, did not get to enter the Promised Land himself.

Seven: Margaret Mitchell - the great author of Gone With the Wind. Who was she and how much of that novel was her own story?

Eight: All the children I did not have from taking birth control. What greatness did I miss from my womb by aborting baby after baby because it was not "convenient" to have a child?

Nine: Jesus Christ - King of Kings, lover of my soul, in spite of all my failings He gave Himself for me so that I would have eternal life and forgiveness for my millions of sins.

Ten: My mother - who denied God until ten days before her death. What was it like to be embraced by the One she rejected for nearly all her life?


So, who woud you invite to your dinner and why? And do you think we could get Jamie and Belle to cater for us?!

26 comments:

shellz said...

What a beautiful list! and a great idea. I'm going to have to put some thought into this!

Jada's Gigi said...

Good choices...it would certainly be an interesting dinner party....I thought i saw you out on Belle's blog...she's a Pensacolian isn't she? And a very talented one I'm thinking...she'll have a book out soon and probably a movie deal too. :) Of course she's "outed" now but JAmie is a cutie....
I would personally love to meet Rahab....funny that Jesus Christ is the only person ever to have been able to choose His own ancestors and He picked her....hmmmm:)

FOUR DINNERS said...

1) Homer Simpson
2) Dave Lister (Red dwarf)
3) Dylan the stoned Rabbit (Magic Roundabout)
4) David Niven
5) John Cleese
6) Peter Sellers
7) Wallace
8) Gromit
9) Calligula
10)Johnny Rotten (Lydon)

Menu : Chicken Vindaloo - lots of it n beer n vodka

WHat a night that'd be....

Candy Minx said...

Krishna
Jesus
Buddha
Rachel Carson
The Tank Man(Tianemen Square guy)
Shakespeare
Gilda Radner
Isadora Duncan
Malcolm X
Marilyn Monroe

And I bet Jamie and Belle would beg to cater!

Camie Vog said...

1. Bono
2. Hunter S. Thompson
3. Margaritte Duras
4. Marleena Dietrich
5. Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances
6. Antonin Artaud
7. Jim Harrison
8. Stewie from Family Guy
9. Noah
10.my Grandfathers

Wow! Whole lotta pop culture in that list...

Heidi Grether said...

You all are fun. Can I come to your dinner parties, too?!!

Sandy Hatcher-Wallace said...

That was a really nice list...I may try that (the list) sometime.
Thanks for stopping by and please stop by again.

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Radical One said...

such an awesome list, sweet girl! thanks for sharing, and thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.

be blessed!
lisa

Anonymous said...

#1. my mom
#2 cami sez:::Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances... we will just getta slug 4 u
i think it will b moren 10 but there all cyberians with blogs
n hattie i can will cater it bcos 1 thing irl i can really do is cook...u want italian, french, mexican, chinese,r american( mostly from brit roots that)

Gardenia said...

mmmmm. Not necessarily in order.
1. Mother Teresa
2. Hildegard of Bingen (I want her herbal secrets)
3. Marilyn Monroe (was it suicide? really?)
4. Rod of God, my son, of course, because I want to know what heaven is like and his poetic descriptions would let me see
5. Deborah - the warrior princess of the Bible
6. Pope John Paul - because I always wanted to meet him
7. Vincent van Gogh
8. Mary Magdelene
9. Jesus, relaxed and breaking bread
10. My oldest daughter's first baby that I named Ben-Omi, son of my sorrows, he was a victim of a miscarriage - I would like to know what sort of young man he would be.

C. H. Green said...

Awesome post. Gave me something to chew on. Stop by and visit me sometime. Door's always open.

Anonymous said...

yas hattie my mom is d34d

Gayzha said...

I think i would just invite all my closest friends including you :)

FOUR DINNERS said...

You n TT r invited 2 by the way..

Louisiana said...

what a wonderful post.
what a great selection of people.
this has given me much thought and i thank you for that....i am now wondering myself who i would want there after the obvious my great-grandparents and dad...

Anonymous said...

4 yrs in june.i did it. caused it same as

Faith Bicknell said...

I'd be afraid to ask Jesus to dinner. He'd probably think I was crude and talked too much. :-)

Gardenia said...

hahaha, so I did have a lot of catholics to dinner! This was fun!

Candy Minx said...

Don't tell me Jim Harrison died? I'm going to have to go google that because I missed his passing...

Candy Minx said...

camievog

Okay, well I think Jim Harrison is still alive and well in Michigan.

Furtheron said...

Crikey - without much thought here goes.

1. Jesus
2. Mohammed
3. Gandi
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. J.S. Bach
6. and 7. both my Granddads - who I never knew
8. and 9. Bill W and Dr Bob
10. HM Queen Elizabeth II (or maybe Henry VIII)

Should Douglas Adams be on that list somewhere... Hmm - can I have two parties :-)

Kate said...

ok here's my list. it's all writers since that's what i want to be:

Jane Austen - because who wouldn't want to meet her?

Eleanor Cameron - so i could ask her all my questions about the Julia books

Roald Dahl - he would have the best stories

Oscar Wilde - funniest person ever!

P.G. Wodehouse - tied with Oscar

Charles Dickens - obviously

Dodie Smith - so i could ask her what ever happened to Cassandra Mortmain. Did she marry Simon???

L.M. Montgomery - since she wrote about 10 of my favorite books

Frances Hodgeson Burnett - when i was little i was so jealous of her because she wrote The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, and i wished i wrote them

James Barrie - my ALL TIME FAVORITE

Buffy said...

I don't have enough time tonight to sit and give this one the thought it deserves.

But I've loved reading everyone's choices.

ldbug said...

1. my great grandma "nana" (we shared a birthday
2. Uncle Jim
3. Kippling
4. Captain Worth (an ancestor who lived a very exciting life)
5. Anyone who was in Pompei when it blew up
6. A mammoth:)or maybe someone who lived by one
7. King Aurthor
8. Plato
9., 10. Lewis & Clark

Gardenia said...

Welcome back!!!!!!!!!!!! to Blogland. Yaaaaayyyyyyyyy