Oh Lord refresh our sensibilities.

Give us this day our daily taste.

Restore to us soups with spoons that will not sink

in sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with,

and casseroles that put starch and substance in our limp modernity.

Take away our fear of fat and make us glad with the oil which ran upon

Aaron's beard. Give us pasta with 100 fillings and rice and 1,000 variations.

Above all, give us grace to live as true men, to fast till we

come to a refreshed sense of what we have and then to dine and gratefully on all that comes to

hand. Drive far from us, oh most bountiful, all

creatures of air and darkness. Cast out the demons that possess us. Deliver us from

the fear of calories and the bondage of nutrition and set us free once more

in our own land where we shall serve thee as thou hast blessed us with the due of heaven the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and

wine. Amen. A prayer from the supper of the lamb by Father Capon.

In Proverbs 22, 29 229, Solomon says, do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings.

He will not stand before obscure men. That's the kind of thing that we're

aiming to talk about in today's episode of Bright hearth as we continue walking

through the rooms of the house and asking what our duties are before the Lord and how to serve our people and love our neighbor and love our Lord in performing the duties that are resident in each one of those rooms as we really

seek to recover the lost arts and disciplines of the productive Christian

household and domesticity. So Lex, how are you doing tonight? We made it. We made it. We made it to recording time, which is good.

That means, dear listener, that we're past bedtime. Past rabbit nail clipping today in our, in the sovay homestead,

we had our first meat rabbit nail clipping of Mother Bear, whom we are praying will become the mother of

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