That table was set for me early on in example. Some people were not invited to a safe place around the table.

ML: …and still aren’t.

AG: Right, and might not know what healthy conversation is. That may be in their church, they’re not able to have good conversation, it may be at home. What we want to say is, this table is that safe place. Maybe that will inspire in them, or prompt in them even, the courage to begin conversations that can be hard to start. We think once you start them, that there can be a safe place there to learn new things.

CCM: Recently, you both had Sandi Patty featured at the table, and were focused on discussing blended families—not something we hear in Christian media a lot.
ML: There’s a lot of divorced people out there. Even the Christians, half of them end up divorced, isn’t it? I think the statistics. We’ve got to think about blended families. I think that episode is one of my favorites, because [Patty] laid out some wisdom. For anybody going through that, trying to blend two different families, I think you should see that episode, because it’s quite amazing—stuff I didn’t ever think about. I’ve never been a part of a blended family.

AG: Isn’t that interesting how that conversation then makes us sensitive to, I’m not part of a blended family either, but there are blended families all around me. [Patty] kept saying what she and her husband, her second husband Don [Peslis], now do for others as people ask their advice. She says, “Here’s what not to do.” Maybe through some of our conversation, people are sharing their experience and their wisdom, and maybe someone else gets a leg up? Maybe they’re still young and not married yet, or maybe they’re thinking about marriage? Through the wisdom and experience that’s displayed through the conversation, maybe they get to avoid, or, I don’t know, avoid painful things and learn from someone else to then implement that in their own life?

If we don’t talk, we don’t learn anything.

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