Family Prayer Is Inconvenient and Worth It

Do you want your kids’ faith in Jesus to last? Me too. As I think about the way God made my own faith last, I remember one thing my parents did that profoundly shaped me.Sitting around our walnut-brown table, we gathered as a family for dinner. Various smells filled the cranberry-colored room. We each showed up: a stay-at-home mom, a software engineer dad, and three sisters. We were all different, and arrived differently each day, but one thing remained the same: Before anyone took a bite, we we