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…

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…

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…