For
Around the Table
God, awaken
us to the everyday miracle of a simple meal.
Whether it is takeout
that took a phone call, or a recipe that took an entire
afternoon,
or the cereal-for-dinner-again feeling this meal creates,
bless it all.
So blessed
are we, sharing
a meal today.
May
we recognize God’s goodness
in the thoughtful preparation, in the
delivering,
in the eating together,
savoring something
that tastes like love.
May our time around
the table be a gift.
May we be present
to one another, engaging all our senses
as an act of thankful worship
for the nourishment that’s before us
with the people we love. Or are trying
to.
God, please bless
the hands that prepared this,
those with us now,
and the ones we wish were. Bless us, oh God.
In all of our eating and cooking
and gathering and sharing,
our jokes,
talking with our mouths full, and elbows on the table,
may we taste and see the love that multiplies.
-Kate Bowler, The Lives We Actually Have
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