Meals
Over at Sacred Space, which comes courtesy of the Irish Jesuits, the thought for the week calls us to make a particular reform:
As we move into Lent we might wonder if fasting has any meaning for us today. It has. It is really asking us to look at our relationship to food and drink. Jesus loved to eat with his friends. Meals were important for him. For families too, meals are a time when children watch and listen to their parents and vice versa. But family meals are in danger of disappearing, what with fast food and the lure of TV, which is sometimes left on even when the family are eating together. Like mobile phones in company, it reduces our presence to one another. For many families a good Lenten resolution would be to have meals together at least once a week, and expose themselves to the need for listening, sitting at peace, knowing how the rest of the family is, and going for slow rather than fast food.Heavens to Murgatroyd, have things declined in Europe so much that one lousy meal per week together as a family is considered challenging? Are they, perhaps, that bad for many in North America as well? Australia?
No, wait. Don't answer that question.
UPDATE: It turns out video games are probably succeeding in teaching kids the skills they will need to survive in a post-apocalypse environment. I'm feeling better already!
Labels: Culture, We're All Going to Die
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1 Comments:
Actually, my interpretation of the quote is that the resolution would be to do all of the things mentioned for that meal: listening to each other, sitting at peace, knowing how the rest of the family is, and taking it slow.
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