HOME SWEET HOME
SEATED AT THE TABLE
Since ancient times, Man has been dedicated to create a shelter to feel safe. Even today, every day after work, we expect the time to get home and rest. But how do we conceive home? Certainly, home is not a rehab where we go just to relax and drop our charges. Home must be a meaning place to invest our best time and our best relationships.
Today's people overlook the beauty of sharing with the members of their families. They prefer to talk to strangers about everyday problems instead of solving them at home. It is at home and with family where we find the right answers. Remember God created us to live in family so we must learn how to live day by day with it.
Sitting at the table and sharing the lunch time, means a family meeting to communicate, remember, share and plan together the experiences of each one. It is also an act we must teach our children to be applied in future generations. The question is,
How many of us sit at the table at noon to eat? Or how many of us choose to eat at the table, as a family, rather than in front of the TV?
In the Jewish context and the time of Jesus, the time to sit at the table was the one of deep and meaningful relationships. It was a moment of intimacy reserved only for the more relatives. Just as at the Last Supper, where Jesus not only shared bread and wine but His deepest sorrow, why don't we share what we regret to those who are our family and love us. Sometimes we prefer to take advice from strangers and then make wrong decisions. Family relationships are complicated per se, since they are a compendium of opinions, emotions and observations learning how to live together in the same place. That's why home should be reign by loving firmness, a power tool based on the principle of love that mainly seeks to prevent conflicts. The love with which we treat our family has to be demonstrated among things like our language. It is more important how we communicate the message than the message itself, because the way determines what the other understands.
We must stop thinking about ourselves and start to worry about others. This involves listening to what our family has to say and help them solve the problems they may have, so we can avoid negative results at home. Bear in mind that many family disputes are generated from the lack of listening and interest on the other. We must be aware that when we do not care about those who live with us we become responsible for family breakdown. If you really want to build a strong family, then you must learn how to support each other. Avoid the divisions and let God pour on all the richest blessings.
Many times, the external pressures, circumstances, and problems come to stun so that we do not notice they are there just to build our character to act positively to adversity. With a good and strong character and loving firmness we will know how to act in front of different situations at home sweet home to make this a place of rest where the agreement prevails.
It is also really important to give control and entry to God in our homes. The first thing to do is prostrate before the Lord and seek guidance for our lives, to consult with Him about the purpose for which we were designed and if we are living according to Him, or if instead we are working according to our own desires, guided by the thought of what we deserve. This is the only way to become our home in a Home Sweet Home. Knowing that our love for Him has to be unconditional and that for our family, a daily decision. With this as a fact, our language will be a bless; we will be assertive, giving space to implement what we communicate; we will generate meaningful relationships and avoid conflict.
SEATED AT THE TABLE
Since ancient times, Man has been dedicated to create a shelter to feel safe. Even today, every day after work, we expect the time to get home and rest. But how do we conceive home? Certainly, home is not a rehab where we go just to relax and drop our charges. Home must be a meaning place to invest our best time and our best relationships.
Today's people overlook the beauty of sharing with the members of their families. They prefer to talk to strangers about everyday problems instead of solving them at home. It is at home and with family where we find the right answers. Remember God created us to live in family so we must learn how to live day by day with it.
Sitting at the table and sharing the lunch time, means a family meeting to communicate, remember, share and plan together the experiences of each one. It is also an act we must teach our children to be applied in future generations. The question is,
How many of us sit at the table at noon to eat? Or how many of us choose to eat at the table, as a family, rather than in front of the TV?
In the Jewish context and the time of Jesus, the time to sit at the table was the one of deep and meaningful relationships. It was a moment of intimacy reserved only for the more relatives. Just as at the Last Supper, where Jesus not only shared bread and wine but His deepest sorrow, why don't we share what we regret to those who are our family and love us. Sometimes we prefer to take advice from strangers and then make wrong decisions. Family relationships are complicated per se, since they are a compendium of opinions, emotions and observations learning how to live together in the same place. That's why home should be reign by loving firmness, a power tool based on the principle of love that mainly seeks to prevent conflicts. The love with which we treat our family has to be demonstrated among things like our language. It is more important how we communicate the message than the message itself, because the way determines what the other understands.
We must stop thinking about ourselves and start to worry about others. This involves listening to what our family has to say and help them solve the problems they may have, so we can avoid negative results at home. Bear in mind that many family disputes are generated from the lack of listening and interest on the other. We must be aware that when we do not care about those who live with us we become responsible for family breakdown. If you really want to build a strong family, then you must learn how to support each other. Avoid the divisions and let God pour on all the richest blessings.
Many times, the external pressures, circumstances, and problems come to stun so that we do not notice they are there just to build our character to act positively to adversity. With a good and strong character and loving firmness we will know how to act in front of different situations at home sweet home to make this a place of rest where the agreement prevails.
It is also really important to give control and entry to God in our homes. The first thing to do is prostrate before the Lord and seek guidance for our lives, to consult with Him about the purpose for which we were designed and if we are living according to Him, or if instead we are working according to our own desires, guided by the thought of what we deserve. This is the only way to become our home in a Home Sweet Home. Knowing that our love for Him has to be unconditional and that for our family, a daily decision. With this as a fact, our language will be a bless; we will be assertive, giving space to implement what we communicate; we will generate meaningful relationships and avoid conflict.
Pastor Carlos Aréjulo
Compiled by Daniela Gámez and Maribel Rodríguez
Translated by Daniela Gámez
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