Ever since I can remember my family has always eaten dinner together around the table. Before the dinner is ready, either my sister or I would set the table and put all the dishes out. Once the food was ready we would out thee food on the table and sit down to pray. At every dinner my dad, me and my sister would watch pray. After prayer we began eating whatever my mom made that night. Usually a casserole. We would talk about our days, how school and work went and whatever else was going on in our lives. After we were finished eating my mom would read family devotions and we would close in prayer. My sister and I would then take turns clearing the table and putting the dishes in the dishwasher.
Lately we have not been as consistent and we used to about eating dinner together. With my dad on a different diet, me working and my sister gone at college, we don't eat together as often as we used to. Our lives are getting busier so it can be more of a struggle to make time for a family dinner, but we still do it a few times a week when I am not working or out with friends. I don't really know too many families other than mine that pray and read devotions at dinner. It is always refreshing to be in a home where the family takes time to pray and eat dinner together. The devotions we read is a booklet that I get from my church. Dinner wouldn't always last very long. Usually 30 minutes at the most unless something exciting had happenned that day.
This family tradition is one that i hope to carry on with my family when I have my own children. I think that spending time as a family together will be a great thing and teaching my kids to pray every night will be great.
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