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. Henri Nouwen
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