Gratitude

Creator God,

We are grateful for the varied ways we can be sustained. We are grateful that our reliance on food speaks to the interconnected nature of our lives – that all of us need each plant, each animal and each other to survive. We are grateful for the lessons learned through cultivating preparing and enjoying food. May these lessons settle in us as we eat and become a way for the reign of peace through justice to enter this earth.

With grateful hearts,
Amen


This grace was deeply influenced by Sallie McFague's manifesto. Her emphasis on the interrelated nature of humanity with all of life, and the implications of that interconnectivity on our ideas of God challenged me as to how we can better acknowledge our interdependence through prayer. I also was inspired by Brueggemann's re-reading of the biblical narrative as competing stories about God's abundance versus our fears of scarcity. I believe the diversity present in the earth is a testament to the model of abundance presented in his article.