Episode #216: Fostering Great Conversation At the Table (LGT 5)
Life with Sally
Sally Clarkson
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
True discipleship must reflect the fact that God values our voice, thought, and will. Dinnertime discussions reflect and enact this value, making a place where everyone can be heard, be exposed to truth, and have the space to develop convictions in the context of community. Through dinnertime discussions, convictions can be formed, confidence can be gained, conversation can be practiced, and consideration can be taught.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to Add Home with Sally. I'm Sally Clarkson and I have the biggest |
| 0:13.0 | privilege in the world to be with so many friends from all over the world who join me every |
| 0:18.6 | week to listen to my stories, inspiration, biblical encouragement. And I am just so glad |
| 0:24.6 | that you're here today. Thanks so much for joining me. |
| 0:38.2 | Hi my friends, it's Sally Clarkson and I am recording this this afternoon. It's a Friday |
| 0:44.5 | afternoon and I'm kind of at that point. Maybe some of you all get to this point, but I am |
| 0:50.4 | looking so forward to the weekend. We have had lots and lots of company and over five weeks |
| 0:56.7 | and then Clay was able to be here for a couple of weeks and then I've been meeting with people |
| 1:01.5 | and working on deadlines and helping with baby Lilly and cooking for joy and me and I cannot |
| 1:09.8 | wait to take time to rest. I hope that all of you take time to rest and to refresh and as many |
| 1:17.8 | of you know, one of the ways that I do that and since I live with joy at this point, most |
| 1:24.1 | of my weeks, joy and I go out for breakfast, we go for a lovely walk, we watch a movie or we take |
| 1:31.7 | time, different times over the weekend to really read, whatever we need to do, just to kind of |
| 1:39.7 | breathe because we almost never don't have a busy life. Is that the same with you? So as you are |
| 1:47.7 | mounting up towards even more activity with the holidays coming up and with so many commitments |
| 1:56.3 | and people, I would encourage you to breathe, to plan rest, to plan times at home, to plan easy |
| 2:04.3 | meals and really just to plan, to cultivate peace and time for pondering, remembering and enjoying |
| 2:15.5 | life with your friends and family as the holidays approach. But today, I'm going to be talking to you |
| 2:23.5 | about as we're working through some of these and I'm only going to do a few chapters more before |
| 2:28.9 | we start something else. But this is from my book The Life Giving Table and today's chapter is |
| 2:37.7 | chapter five is called Table Talk, the gift of dinnertime conversation. And I love this quote, it says, |
| 2:45.6 | the most influential of all educational factors in the conversation is the conversation in a child's |
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