Daily Meditation: The Barometer of Our Lives

DAILY MEDITATION The Barometer of Our Lives February 17 Photo courtesy of SDGimagery.com Although the table is a place for intimacy, we all know how easily it can become a place of distance, hostility, and even hatred. Precisely because the table is meant to be an intimate place, it easily becomes the place we experience the absence of intimacy. The table reveals the tensions among us. When husband and wife don't talk to each other, when a child refuses to eat, when brothers and sisters bicker, when there are tense silences, then the table becomes hell, the place we least want to be. The table is the barometer of family and community life. Let's do everything possible to make the table the place to celebrate intimacy. For further reflection... "Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone." - Colossians 4:6 (NIV) Your response... Have your table experiences been mostly good, intimate experiences or the hellish kind or something in between? Comment on this meditation. Continue the Inspiration Purchase your copy of Henri Nouwen's book "Bread for the Journey".   Visit our Bookstore: United States | Canada | United Kingdom Consider our monthly giving program to sustain the ability to extend Henri's legacy and make his work available to those who seek spiritual formation and nourishment. Click here to sign up today. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo. STAY CONNECTED:

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