Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

There was a rant from a guy on Twitter that I read the other day about the ridiculousness of how any time his

family was going to have company over, this man's mother would require him to go and clean his room.

His attempts to point out that his mother's friends would never step foot in his room did

nothing to keep his mom from insisting on a clean bedroom. Now maybe your mom

was the same way. Apparently this resonated with a lot of people. The internet

is flooded with comedic recreations of moms preparing for visitors and the

frenzy they get into when someone is coming to their home.

Now I love my home and I particularly love to make my home a beautiful and welcoming place.

Now with a toddler it doesn't always look perfect.

But I make sure that any time someone is coming over I do my best to restore it back to the vision

I have for my home. I clean it up and I do my best to host well. And so I want to defend the

moms here. It's not a bad thing to want to defend the moms here.

It's not a bad thing to want to make your home nice and inviting and beautiful for guests.

But I get the point of the rants and the funny videos too.

When the cleaning and preparing sends us into a joyless

frenzy, it keeps everyone from being able to enjoy the moment, to look forward to

the guests even coming. I'm often guilty of even letting it steal the joy while people are in my home.

I work hard to keep things clean and provide for them, but my anxiety about making sure everything appears perfect keeps me from really engaging with and enjoying the very people I'm doing everything for.

Maybe you've been one of these hosts or you've been hosted by someone like this.

It becomes clear very quickly that the person is less interested in you

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