What are You Fighting Against to Have the Contented Table You Crave?
What's next for the Contented Table.
Craving Peace and rest at your table?
Do you want more connection at mealtime?
Though the reasons why Peace can be stolen from your table are as many as all of you reading this, there are themes. I have heard families share their mealtime stories and wishes for years.
Now I want to help your family find the Peace, rest, and connection you crave.
When you understand the obstacles, you can step back from your table and recognize your roadblocks, and identify your solutions, to create the gathering place where you and your family want to be.
Then, all you need are practical strategies.
I am writing a book to give you just that. If the book were complete, you would read the following on the back cover. Flip over the imaginary book for a sneak peek into what is coming in this next season of The Contented Table.
Gathering Peace: 10 Ways to Transform Mealtime into Moments of Connection and Rest.
Since the beginning of time, food has brought us together. So why is it that we find our tables emptier of connection than full of family life?
Jesus reclined at the table, and we barely pause, if at all. Not only have rates of meeting together declined in our society, but it is also diminishing in our homes. You can be lonely in a house full, and it reflects in our shiny, waiting table.
Why has the natural meeting place somehow become unnatural? What are we fighting against that makes the battle to gather and connect seem too big in the moment of mealtime?
In Gathering Peace, Jane Curry Weber’s gentle voice invites you into her home of boys, and growing up in a large farming family in rural Nova Scotia, Canada, blending relatable food memories with insightful guidance. She draws from her years of listening to families’ stories as a dietitian, and the Bible’s prominence in gathering around food, to help you establish a foundational Peace at mealtime, get past your barriers to natural connection, and find your path to the rest you are meant to have with food.
Whether you struggle to gather your family, corral the chaos around your table, or quiet the constant food chatter occupying your thoughts, this strategy guide will help you cultivate the Peace and connection you crave at your table.
With insight that is both nurturing and nourishing, Peaceful and restful, and builds connection and calm, Jane provides practical strategies to reshape mealtimes into your favorite moments of the day.
A New Season of The Contented Table: Gathering Peace
In the coming months, you will receive newsletters that dig into ten different themes that will allow you to have the family table you desire.
We will look to the wisdom in scripture along with evidence-based nutrition to enlighten your path to a more:
restful,
Peaceful,
appealing table.
Insight from both the Old and New Testaments will invite you to draw closer to God and those around your table. And I’m excited to share these verses with you.
Some topics may resonate a little more, and some a little less. What resonates with you will inform what is in the final chapters. Because, well, this book is for you!
Each theme will reveal how, as a society, we are subtly and silently losing the most natural connection point in our home when we do not intentionally seek to protect it.
Accompanied by practical strategies to establish or preserve your family table’s rightful ownership to Peace, rest, and connection.
Want to pull up a chair to join the conversation?
Subscribe for free.
That’s it.
And those of you who decide to join the Gathering Peace Insiders’ Table by becoming a paid subscriber will also receive:
The final book PDF for free
The usual freebies
A whole lotta fun along the way, discussing the topics in the Insiders’ Table Talk.
One of your food memories may even be included in the book.
Plain Jane Recipes with Kitchen and Nutrition tips are not going away. All subscribers will continue to receive a monthly recipe along with the audio Recipe Story to inspire you to make your own mealtime memories.
I’m eager to get to the final book, but more excited for you and me to journey on this path of discovery together. Growing closer to Peace Himself, to spill over into a posture of peace and love, whether serving meals or serving those around us.
Isn’t that the true source of a contented table?
Loving Him and loving others?
Thank you for pulling up a chair to The Contented Table.
I am so glad you came.
Invite a friend for next time. There is always room for one more.
Until then, a gentle reminder,
God wants you to know:
I see you,
I hear you,
I love you.
Jane
Well I’ve been secretly hoping for this type of announcement from you. And I loved everything about this post!
Yay, a book!!!