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ARE YOU A GATHERING FAMILY?
What’s the atmosphere like in your home? What’s it like at meal times? Do you gather together around your table? Talk and fellowship together? Open God’s Word and pray together? Do you do dishes and clean up the kitchen together? Or is Mom left with the mess and everyone goes their merry way?I am aware than in many homes family meal times don’t happen together. Even if they do, mother is left doing dishes while children run off to do their own thing. You can’t run a home this way. Family life is togetherness. Family life means that everyone pulls their weight.
Dear mother, you are the one who makes it happen. Don’t allow everyone to do their own thing. Gather the family together. Make the table and your meal so attractive and inviting that they’ll want to come to the table.
Think of subjects to discuss with your children at the table rather than enduring small talk that doesn’t interest anyone. And of course, you’ll never allow iPhones at the table! Have a basket where they drop them in as they come to the table. The table is the place to communicate together as a family. To look at one another face to face.
The Bible picture of a family that lives in God’s blessing is a family with the children all sitting around the table (Psalm 128:3). God wants to join you at your table. He wants to speak to you all as you open His Word at the end of the meal.
Don’t let your family dissipate into their own world and the world of social media while your family fragments away. Satan does not want family togetherness. He is intent on scattering the family in every direction. You must fight against every hindrance. You must push through and make it happen. But what blessed things will happen when you do.
Blessings on your home today in the name of Jesus.
Love from Nancy Campbell
P.S. I know this picture looks too perfect and too few children. I am sure you have many more around your table. But oh it is difficult to find pictures with a big family around the table. If you have some, I’d love you to send them to me.
