Table Grace:
Come, Lord Jesus, and be our guest. Share this meal with us. Enter our hearts and into the daily rhythm of our laughter and conversation.
Come, Lord Jesus, and be our host. Teach us how to serve. Open our hearts, minds, homes and tables to all we meet and know.
Come, Lord Jesus, to this meal and bless the hands and love that have provided this sustenance and those eating at this table and all others across our world. Amen.
Devotion:
As I child I grew up saying the basic table grace "Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest and let these gifts to us be blessed." This is still the table grace I offer up when my family gathers together for a meal. For the first time ever I contemplated this grace and how it doesn't quite say everything that I feel is needed to say. I often think of my first agape meal for Teens Encounter Christ where there was an empty chair at the head of the table representing Jesus' presence at our meal. Jesus is both the guest and the host who shows us all the way, provides the meal for us and enjoys the meal with us.
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