I'm from Florida, but my mother was from Ohio originally, and I can hear my mother in the echos of my mind saying "Come to supper!"...and if we didn't get there pretty quick we'd get another call, and if we still dawdled, I'd hear, "Pamela Anne Mursch, get in here right now!" And then I'd drop whatever I was doing and run as fast as I could to get to the table before she had to call me again...Not sure what would have happened if I didn't do as I was told...because I knew better than to do that...(well, maybe I did know what would happen, and that is why I learned to obey...)
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| My family circa 1954? That's me on the far right..."the little redhead", as I was affectionately called by many...(until I got too big to be called "little", and then I was called a lot of other things, like "Carrot top", "I'd rather be dead than red on the head.."...no, not by my family, but by those other people who just liked to tease...) |
Okay, when you call your family to come and eat the evening meal, what do you say?
"Come to supper!" or do you say "Come to dinner!"...or maybe you just say, "Come and get it!"
However, if you are having a big meal at noontime, say on Sunday after church, do you call it "lunch", or do you call it "Sunday dinner"? Well, what if your big meal at noontime is on Saturday, or any other day of the week? Is it a dinner, or lunch?
What do you say when you are going out to a restaurant for your evening meal? Do you say, "We are going out to dinner", or do you say "Let's go out to supper!" Or maybe you just say, "Let's go out to eat"...
I asked Google this question, and here is a link to what I discovered:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/22446/lunch-vs-dinner-vs-supper-times-and-meanings You might find that interesting.
Looks like pretty much whatever you want to call it is just fine! A lot depends on where you came from, or where your folks came from...but the most important thing is to spend time together as a family around the table...whether it be lunch, dinner, supper, (or breakfast, brunch...)...whether it be a sandwich or a seven course dinner (banquet?, buffet?)...or even a tea party... (oh, that's another whole discussion if you happen to be English or British or Scottish...Tea Time is kind of a supper...or is it a dessert...or a snack followed by a real supper later?...Oh this is getting too complicated!)
Here's an old favorite song for those of us who have been around long enough to appreciate Johnny Cash: "Come Home, Come Home, It's Suppertime"
Lyrics
Many years ago in days of childhood
I used to play till evenin' shadows come
Then windin' down that old familiar pathway
I'd hear my mother call at set of sun
Come home, come home it's supper time
The shadows lengthen fast
Come home, come home it's supper time
We're going home at last
Some of the fondest memories of my childhood
Were woven around supper time
When my mother used to call
From the backsteps of the old homeplace
"Come on home now son, it's supper time"
Ah, but I'd love to hear that once more
But you know for me time has woven the realization of
The truth that's even more thrilling and that's when
The call come up from the portals of glory
To come home, for it's supper time
When all of God's children
Shall gather around the table
Of the Lord himself
And the greatest supper time of them all
Come home, come home, it's supper time
The shadows lengthen fast
Come home, come home, it's supper time
We're going home at last
Songwriters: Ira F. Stanphill
And here is the most important "SUPPER" you will ever be invited to attend. Be sure that you have your invitation already, as the time is drawing near...and we need to be ready to go when we are called to "Come Home, It's Supper Time!"
Revelation 19:6-9 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, “Alleluia! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!
7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.”
8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
9 Then he said to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God.”
