Good Company

Jamesever

✍🏾 Sweet company; sweet words

Today's Healthy-Happy-H@ly Do List . . .

🌟Enjoying 😊
🌟Appreciating 🫂
🌟Refining 🎯

A Story:

Naem (naw-ame') embraces sweetness and beauty. It's delightful company in the Hebrew tongue and comes this morning in a verse I read and turned around to get a more positive rendering: enjoy sweet words with sweet company.

Had I chosen to translate it word for word, the passage would come out "eat with bad company, and you'll waste all of your sweet words." I like my version better: "sweet company; sweet words."

It's rare for me to spend time dining in the company of those I consider callous of heart, disingenuous, mealymouthed, or even Pecksniffian. I save my sweet words for breaking better bread in good company, even in digital spaces.

Food eaten is so much better because the flavors mingle best heart to heart, and what should be an half hour's eating, at least for me, finds the waiter wiping tables down for the night, leaving only red lentils and sautéed onions beside a plated tip. In those moments I could care less for food. I take my fill of eyes and sparkle and kindness. It is time well spent for memory.

We have choices for how we spend our time, especially for which words scroll up and down our feed each day—the sharp-elbowed and colorful ones, the quirky this or that, or a sunset found. It's a feed in a public setting for our consumption, something keeping company with some company's ad or two. Yesterday, it was the Bose speakers I think they thought I wanted, and some super-comfortable swimwear that I admit caught my eye.

In the end it's the time well spent that makes for better memory, the music made for background noise at a table set for few. It's how we do our day, our lives, and the company we keep. It's that song we hum and play remembered on
repeat, the one that keeps refreshing memory with every chord. It is the sound of good words for good company and sweet for sweet.

I hope your feed brings you some company you keep, the ones for lovely or delightful—or the beautiful ones for sweet.


Source: Chapter 23: Verse 8