The Table is Powerful-Sometimes a Place of Brokenness
Laura Longville
Our tables can have painful memories carved into them. It too is the place where distance is most painfully felt. It is where children feel the tension between their parents, where brothers and sisters express anger and jealousy, where accusations are made, and where plates and cups become instruments of violence.
Around the table, we know whether there is friendship and community or hatred and division. The table can be a place of intimacy and where the absence of that intimacy is most painfully revealed.
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