When you have eaten and are satisfied bless praise the Lord your God for the good land He has given you Jesus himself gives thanks during a meal on a couple of occasions.
What do you say when saying grace. We also thank Him for how good things are. It is customary in many cultures to say a wedding grace before meals and a popular one is The Wedding Prayer by the poet Robert Louis Stevenson. Blessed be the hands that helped prepare this meal May those hands and our hands bodies too be well and quick to heal.
When I was a camp counselor one of my favorite ways to say grace was. 16 Ways to Say Grace Bless us oh Lord for these thy gifts that we re about to receive from thy bounty through Christ our Lord Amen Good bread good meat thank the lord LETS EAT. Praying before eating is not a requirement but rather a practice that helps us retain our perspective about who provides our food.
What do you say when saying grace. If youre eating meat or fish thank the animals for your nourishment. The following blessings were.
When we usually thank the Lord for our food we recognize that God has given us all good things. Thank you God for this great world For trees and fields and bees. Thank you God for yummy meals For fruit and bread and cheese.
Thank you Lord for families For laughter and for fun Thank you now for this fine food Please bless it to our tum. It is also called saying the blessing Such prayers follow the examples of Jesus and the apostle Paul both of whom said grace before meals see Acts 2735. Blessed be our friends our families and all of our loved ones.
In the traditional Catholic Grace prayer used before a meal we acknowledge our dependence on God and to ask Him to bless us and our food. Yes man tends the field but God provided it and causes it to grow. View food as nourishment.