Table Talk.. Qs to get the conversation going..

“All great change begins at the dinner table.”
(Ronald Reagan)

Isn’t it uncanny how often significant conversations begin while seated around a table? Be they first coffee dates, university discussion groups, Sunday family lunches, funny stories shared around a campfire, or the significance of the wedding banquet across cultures worldwide, conversation grows relational connection, often facilitated by the sharing of food and drink. How can you begin a weekly practice of curated, intentional conversations, seated around a table of your choosing? 

Here are a few questions to kickstart your conversation:

• What insight has stuck with you this past month from reading the essay introducing Ordinary Time, “Conscious Partial Attention?”
• How has your growing awareness of technological creep influenced your life and relationships?
• What if we saw ourselves in the refugee and stranger, recognising our own journey from alien to citizen, from homeless in a strange land to welcomed into a new home? 
• Put more succinctly, what if we welcomed the alien among us as if we were God welcoming ourselves?
• What if we actively loved our neighbour as ourself? 
• What if we built a longer table instead of a higher fence?