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# Every Pot, Every Plate, Every Person
- URL: https://thatpaleochick.com/every-pot-every-plate-every-person/
- Published: 2026-11-05T21:46:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-05T21:46:16.000Z
- Description: Colossians 3:17. The smell of something warm on the stove before anyone else is awake is one of the quietest forms of love I know.
- Author: Krista Wade
- Tags: Faith, Daily Devotional, #focus-spirit

> And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.  
>  
> **Colossians 3:17 (BSB)**

The smell of something warm on the stove before anyone else is awake is one of the quietest forms of love I know. No audience, no applause. Just the work of feeding people. And somewhere in that ordinariness, something holy is already happening, whether we name it or not.

Colossians 3:17 doesn't carve life into sacred and ordinary. It doesn't say worship belongs in a building and dinner belongs in a different category. It says whatever you do, do it in His name, with thanksgiving. That word whatever is doing a lot of heavy lifting. It includes the chopping and the stirring and the setting out of plates and the pulling up of an extra chair.

Thanksgiving at the table is not just a polite formality before the food gets cold. It's a posture, a way of moving through the whole meal, through the conversation, through the cleanup after. When we offer a meal to someone, we're practicing the same hospitality that Scripture keeps pointing us back to: making room, sharing what we have, acknowledging that the food on the table came from somewhere beyond our own effort.

You don't need a dinner party or a beautiful spread to practice this. You need today's meal and a willingness to hold it with open hands, grateful for the hands that grew it, the body that will receive it, and the people, even just yourself, sitting at the table.

## At the table today: Say Thank You Before You Serve, Not Just Before You Eat

At one meal today, before you carry the food to the table or set down the plate, pause in the kitchen and say a word of thanks out loud. Not a formal prayer if that doesn't feel natural. Just a sentence, spoken to God, acknowledging that the food in your hands is a gift and the act of feeding someone, or yourself, is not a small thing. One moment, one meal, one breath of gratitude before it even reaches the table.

## A prayer

*Lord, let every meal I prepare and every table I set today be an act of worship, offered in Your name and held with a grateful heart.*

## Journal

What would change about how you cook or eat today if you treated every part of it as an offering?