Dinner is Served by Tie Bros

[Isabella]

Think about all the people who have riches and yet they don’t have the time to sit down with their family to enjoy a meal.  This is nothing new, even in Solomon’s time  this was an issue. That is why he wrote the scripture at proverbs 15:17. We shouldn’t imitate the world that prioritizes wealth, entertainment and material possessions over spending time with family in a loving atmosphere. 

It is not about what we are eating at the dinner table, but who we are eating with. It is not about how fancy the setting is where we share a meal, but about filling that setting with love.

[TrueTomHarley]

When I was a child, supper time was sacrosanct. Everybody had supper at more of less the same time.

On becoming a Witness, I respected that family hour and would not ever call during that time. It took me a long time to realize that it is not that way anymore. Typical is for family members to come and go, eat whenever, and not necessarily together. 

Now I will go in service sometimes through what used to be the supper time and it raises no fuss at all. Should I find I have interrupted someone’s supper, I apologize profusely, say people have such varied schedules that I didn’t know, and I move on. It doesn’t happen too often.

And to think that when I was new as a Witness there was an old-timer, who not only would not call during the supper hour (something NO Witness would do) but he wouldn’t even call during the LUNCH hour that he imagined people still kept.

[Patiently waiting for Truth]

Um, so maybe some of us people outside the Org would surprise you then Tom. We still sit as a family and eat dinner together, in the evening, though there is only three of us now, all others having left home. 

You do have a way with your ideas of a typical family. In your opinion they don't eat together and they are one parent families that know nothing about marriage. Any more ideas for your 'typical family' ? 

As for riches, um W/t / JW Org have plenty, and real estate. 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

Something my young children taught me, is that a peanut butter and jelly sandwich will fit PERFECTLY into the slot of a VCR.