We thank you for
for the food before us,
the friends beside us,
the love between us,
and your spirit among us.
Amen.
This is the table prayer that we pray whenever we have guests at our house (with no guests we pray "Come Lord Jesus be our guest, let this home and food be blessed"). We first learned this prayer at a church family retreat, and it started when we would have church friends over because they also knew the prayer.
One thing that I love about this prayer is that it moves from the obvious to the deeper blessings for which we are grateful. It is the Spirit that allows us to share the love of friends and family. Our own experience of sharing it with our church family makes it especially sentimental for me.
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