Don't underestimate the power and importance of your dining table.
I am reminded of its importance from the famous and amazing Dutch woman Corrie ten Boom:
"Can a piece of furniture be important? The oval table in our dinning room was the gathering place for hopes and dreams, the listening place for prayers and petitions, and the loving place for joy and laughter." - Corrie ten Boom (Author of the book: In My Father's Hourse - The Years Before the Hiding Place)
However, meal times at our home can sometimes degenerate into this:
J reading his Donald Duck comics, Daddy reading the news on the iPad and me absorbed in the books of amazing biographies of great people... and at the same time eating. When I catch myself and resist the temptation, it is easy for us moms to nag or explode our children and spouse out of this. But the best way is to take it to the Lord and pray and gently coach our family members out of their cocoons... not easy, but the best way.
We are not a perfect family and we don't always achieve it. But the important thing is the progress. Tomorrow is yet another day to try :-)
May our dining table be a place of fond memories years down the road in our family. This is the prayer and goal of our family and may it be everyone's too.
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