Family Values: Daddy comes home for dinner.
At Summitview we have been talking about managing the chaos of our homes and restoring order to our families. This is a difficult venture to undertake but one that is well worth the cost.
As Eskai and I have looked at how we quiet the chaos of our house, we began to list out some of our families core values. One of these is:
Daddy comes home for dinner.
This core value was passed on to both of us from our families of origin. Both of our Dads made it a priority to be home for dinner. There are always times when this is not possible. There will be times when there are evening meetings or other commitments that pull us away, but by and large our Dads were around the dinner table with us.
This is true in our house today. I limit the nights that I am away from my family. Right now our limit is one evening a week, mostly because we still live an hour from the church. Even when we are able to move closer, there probably won’t be more than 2 nights that I will have after dinner meetings or events scheduled.
If we want to restore order to our homes, Dad needs to be home for dinner. A time to connect with your wife. A time to connect with your children, if children are in your house. A central meeting point each day to restore order and calm in the midst of the chaos and frantic nature of our day.
