When sharing a meal with someone, turn off your phone.  They are sharing minutes of their life with you…minutes they can never get back.  Honor that gift with your presence.

To be present in the moment is to be open to let the Lord work through you all and edify, encourage and grow each through conversation and companionship.

Too often I observe people in restaurants so engrossed in their cell phones that they never even acknowledge those at the table.   Entire families sit at their tables, each on their phone. It would be cheaper to stay home and ignore each