Ancestors Speak – The Evening Meal

Picture of dinner table set for fourteen – Copyright 2007 Judy Hirst

Growing up in a large family has its challenges.  There are also many benefits.  One benefit is the traditions that we learned – traditions passed down by our Ancestors. 

One of the healing things that we did daily was to have our evening meal together, around the table, and not in front of the TV.  The TV, if it was on, was turned off for the meal because we were expected to talk during supper.  This meal was a time of sharing how one’s day went, and in that sharing was a healing of the bad things or the scary things. 

The discussions were not just between my parents; they were discussions that included all of us.  We learned to speak in a direct way to each other.  Each meal started with a short prayer by one of us children, and each meal had a loaf of bread that was passed around the table.  The meal always had meat, potatoes, and a vegetable or two. Because we raised beef cattle and pigs, we usually had beef or pork. 

Thirty years after leaving the farm, my brothers and sisters and I are still close.  We often talk about some of our more memorable evening meals around the table.  Often, family members were discussed at the table, and that is how we learned our family history.  We heard the stories of the things that they did, the jokes that they played, or the journeys that they took.  We learned about perseverance and patience.  We understood that sometimes one has to make great changes, like moving from England to Canada, or Sweden to Canada, in order to make life better.

Most of all, we learned that sitting around the table at the evening meal is a sharing circle, and that this circle exists in all homes.  One simply has to use it.

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Judy@angelsandancestors.com   See the May Magazine online at  www.angelsandancestors.com/newsletter/mag1005.pdf.

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