Rethinking the Table

I read the same thing this week from a Hindu physicist, a Jewish author, and a Christian farmer. All are practicing different faith traditions and all are working in different fields. And they agreed on this: the table—full of food, with friends and family, sharing a meal—is a holy experience.

People like us that are unwilling to continue with the way things are will stop seeing meals as interruptions in our schedules. Instead, they are a hard pause that help us make sense of the purpose and place of the rest of our schedule.

We will stop speeding through cooking and consuming like we hurry through the gas station. Meals are not time to fill up on fuel for the road, but are instead where we get our coordinates, understand our maps, and chart out our course.

We will stop perceiving meals as an inconvenience to an otherwise productive day, and instead see them as opportunities.
For insight.
For relationship.
For dreaming.
For dialogue.
For wonder.
For meditation.
For nourishment.
For divinity.

People like us are rethinking the table.