SABBATH MEAL

Five Ideas to Simplify Traditional Family Meals with Toddlers + Preschoolers

Most Friday evenings, our family gathers around our large table to enjoy our borrowed tradition of Shabbat, the formal finish of a week of work and the beginning of a day of rest (Sabbath). We are in our third year of practicing this ritual,…

for the weekend | an easy handmade bread

Every Friday evening, our family shares communion together during our Sabbath meal. I love the concreteness of communion, the plainness of the metaphor. God found in the most ordinary and humble place of crushed, fermented grapes and a…
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our family Sabbath meal revisited

Last autumn, our family began practicing a weekly Sabbath meal together, which I wrote about in more detail over here. Six months into this new family tradition, I have a little more to say about both the difficulties and surprises of this…
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practicing the sabbath and learning to rest

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.  -- Ecclesiastes 3:1  After our trip alone to Taos this summer, my husband and I realized we needed more boundaries between work and rest. Our…