Friends welcome back to the

the ransom-tart podcast here in the early part of 2019. John Eldridge here with

you and Morgan Snyder as well. I was intrigued that one of the most popular

books on Amazon recently and over the Christmas holidays was the instant pot cookbook and

apparently the instant pot is like this Uber fast pressure cooker thing it's kind of like a slow cooker on steroids or whatever and the idea is you can make dinner in three minutes and

That this would be one of the best-selling books.

Maybe it was number one at one point.

I was just fascinated with, oh my goodness,

what does that say about us, that dinner has become a luxury?

Dinner, you want me to do what?

Like, maybe if this machine will help me

get it done in five minutes,

I can bring dinner back into our lives isn't that amazing

wow I'll be just as you say that I think just sitting down is a big achievement

as a family let alone the preparation of a meal.

Right. When our kids were growing up, family dinner was at six, that was a given. You never have to ask, so what are we doing tonight? It was just no. This is one of the stable places in your life and this is just time to sit down, process your day, enjoy something savory and healthy and give your soul a little sanctuary.

I was so surprised to hear people react to that and people are reacting to it right now as I say it with how rare that's become to sit down to have a ritual like dinner and to enjoy it and enjoy making it and you know now we're at the place

where if you can get it done in three minutes if this technology will help me I can do it but this isn't blaming this

isn't shaming I'm not pointing a finger I'm actually trying to be merciful yes

like oh my goodness because of what we want to talk about in these two episodes here

Morgan I had asked for a conversation on lessons from 2018,

from last year.

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