I admit it, I am a single white American male and an empty nester, living in the small Florida coastal town I end up eating alone on occasion.

Trust me I do not prefer eating alone it is just where I’m at in life right now.

There’s few things finer than a good meal, with good company and good conversation makes evening that much more enjoyable.

And you must remember that in the city I live in, “you’re either a newlywed or nearly dead” I am neither of those two!

Yet I am never alone, for the Lord goes before me, watches over my journey and meets me anywhere I go; as His still and quiet voice reminds me,

“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I riser you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. ( psalm 139: 1-12 niv).

Lord I pray that you remind me that when the chair is empty across from me at dinner that You are there offer the finest relationship and dinner companion that a heart can imagine.