The Table Experience: Discover What Creates Deeper, More Meaningful Relationships

by Devi Titus

We're a society on the go. It seems we have more ways than ever to communicate with each other. And yet, despite the technology of texting, instant messages, cell phones, and video conferencing, our relationships often suffer from lack of quality communication. The answer is not better usage of technology, but rather in using a timely treasure...the table!

Genres: Nonfiction, Christian Non Fiction

195 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2009

Reviews

[MIchelle Nolan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone should read this book! The table is where relationships are made. It is vital to the fabric of the family and society that we break bread together. During the pandemic, I have made it a priority like no other time in my life, to have dinner together as a family. My three teenage boys, and even my husband sometimes, would rather eat in their bedrooms or in the living room, but I insist we eat at the table together at least 5/7 nights a week. I tell them this is our half hour to be a family every day -otherwise we are just roommates. We have also started playing card or board games after dinner. At first they grumbled about it and now they demand a game after dinner! It has been what has pulled us through this pandemic. It is a tradition, simple, but so necessary. We connect, we joke, we fight, we discuss and we are fed. It is is vital to have that family connection- it is what makes up greater society. We, as a country, need to turn off the screens for half an hour and sit at a table with our children, eat a nutritious meal, and laugh with one another. It is healing.

[Jane Dugger · Rating 2 out of 5]

I agree with the author about the importance of table (eating, sharing, loving around a table) but it was way too churchy for my taste.

[Lisa Phillips · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. Bring the family back to the dinner table! Great read!