I remember being shocked at magazine articles and TV news blips about the number of times typical American families sit down to eat a meal together. I can't remember the exact statistic, but they were urging families to make it a priority to eat at least one meal together as a family per week! I could hardly believe what they were saying.
Our family makes it a priority to eat family meals together at least 10 to 12 times a week. Sometimes more. Of course we are blessed this way because we homeschool our children so they are home for lunch and almost always for dinner and my husband comes home for lunch every day unless his boss is in town, which isn't very often.
I have been guilty of wishing for more freedom during the day by not having to fix lunch on my husband's schedule, but this is taking for granted the blessing of family time we can have together while other families are fractured, split, and running in different directions all the time.
I think some of the best conversations and fun we have had as a family has been around the dinner table at meal times. It is a shame that families in our day and age are so busy with activities that there is no time for meals together.
Families are the back bone of our nation. As the family unit fractures and crumbles, so goes our nation. Our nation was built on a solid Biblical foundation too. That foundation is being hammered, broken apart and replaced by unbiblical laws and morals. At best the replacement is a foundation of sandstone and it is crumbling fast.
What our nation needs is a return to a solid Biblical foundation and a return of a solid backbone of families committed to one another. Until that happens, our nation is on a fast track to destruction.
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I can't imagine that either. We eat all our dinners together and some other meals as well...often lunch and breakfast on weekends. It's just a sad state of things today. I worry about the kind of world my son will be raising his kids in. :-(
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