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

28/9/2015

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“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?
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