At dinner on Saturday night, Chris Causey Intentional Interim Pastor of Fox Island UCC offered this wonderful prayer. Read Below and listen to the Prayer :
Loving God, Sacred Chef of all that is nourishing and delightful, we gather in ever-widening circles around these tables - now at mealtime, still hungry for more than food, thirsty for more than drink. So often, God, in our search for a quick fix to fill our spiritual tummies, we choose religious certainty rather than cultivate the organic bounty of holy wonder. Forgive us loving God, often our appetites long for the sweet honey of collaboration but instead we settle repeatedly for coercion, choosing expediency over patience, authority over leadership and ambivalence over hope. Many times, O God, our gatherings remind us of our fragmented resources of spiritual nutrition - what have we done with the garden that was entrusted to us? Give us initiative and boldness to pull the weeds that grow between us. Holy God, more times than not our gatherings in every widening circles, reveal to us the amazing abundance that surrounds us -- now with this meal before us give us grateful hearts as we eat, allowing the conversation and laughter to bounce between us strengthening the bonds that transcend the miles that so easily separate us. In the name of love, we pray.
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