For the gifts that you have given to us in one another and we pray this day for those who are absent from our table
We ask your blessing on the food before us and those whose labor has prepared it and we pray for those who hunger for food and labor
We ask you to bless us with strength in body,mind and spirit and we pray for those in need of health,happiness and faith
We give thanks for our nation born of faith,courage and love’s labor and we pray for those parts of our nation and world torn by violence and war
We give thanks for all those you have given to us in family and friends and we remember those who have been called from this life (name those we have lost)
We give thanks for this time to make memories, letting go of that which divides us, forgiving and being forgiven, that we might begin anew to live fully alive in joy.
Bless this food before us, the people that join us and all of those who join us in this world wide family of hope.
