How would you describe your family dinner table? How do you see your role? Richard Foster, in his book on prayer, says this:
“Today the family table can be a significant altar where meals are celebrated and all the great and small events of our personal histories can be recounted. Here mothers and fathers fulfill the priestly role.”
Consider that the family table can be a significant place of ritual, instruction, fellowship, communion, blessing. What family-dinner activities does your family engage in to create a place of worship?
Ann Voskamp writes that they read Scripture after each meal.
Perhaps you pray together, holding hands?
We all recite the Lord’s Prayer together before we eat.
The new Common Prayer book has readings and meditations for each night of the week.
Growing up my mom read a version from Our Daily Bread, a little plastic bread loaf that sat in the middle of the table.
How can you transform an ordinary meal into a significant altar by inviting Christ into your midst and being intentional with your time around the table? I’d love to hear from you … and thanks for reading.
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I was just thinking the other day about my mom’s Our Daily Bread plastic bread loaf that we read from at dinner time! It was a practical and fun way to work scripture into our meal time. Our little guy is only 5 months, but I am already thinking ahead to how I’d like our dinner times to play out as a family. I wonder if they still make those little scripture bread loaves…
Carolina that’s so funny! I keep hearing from other girls our age whose moms had the same bread loaf! One friend said they must have gotten it from the Current Catalog…remember that? Ahh…love it. Pray you get creative ways to do the same for your boy! Love…