Dear Maker of all things: You alone have made us what we are. Let us rejoice in the creation of life. Help us to understand, and to play out in our lives, that You alone are the One responsible for our height, our weight, our color, our demeanor, our likes and our dislikes. Help us understand that You love us no matter what. Help us understand that changing ourselves, trying to “better” ourselves will not change how You love us. Help us to remember we are justified through Your grace, if only we’d have faith to see this. As we sit down to share this meal, grant us peace and satisfaction in the food placed before us; may it satisfy our desires to change and bring us closer to the real Creator. We thank You for this meal, for those we share it with, and ask Your blessings upon all who share together the bounty You have placed before us. May Your wonderful Creation of nourishment be shared with all Your children, those present and those in need. We pray these words, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
This prayer comes from contemplating over Starving for Salvation. We all try to look our best, we all try to make ourselves into something other than who we are. The prayer comes from the hope that we can realize God has made us in a form that God wants us to be. I’ve come to the realization that I’ll never be Michael Phelps or Tiger Woods or Tony Romo for God made me me alone. Starving to the point of weakness and death is not what God intends for us. This won’t make us more pleasing to God. Nothing we do will make God love us less.
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