I grew up saying a blessing before just about every family meal through most of my childhood. But as the years passed after I left home and went off to college, I slowly started moving away from regularly doing it. Until at some point I wasn’t doing it at all anymore. That all has changed in the past few years though with the amount of spiritual work I’ve been doing on myself. I’m so much more grateful now for what I have, especially with the food I consume, given that 870 million people in this world are currently starving. For this reason I say grace now at each and every meal and here is one that I hope you may try to use the next time you’re about to eat.
“Dear God, I thank You for this food and for all the abundance I have of it in my life. May You bless this food with Your love and light so that it’s nourishment will draw me closer to You. I’m very grateful to You that I am not going hungry in my life, but I know there are many out there who are. I ask that You guide me to doing my part in feeding those people. Please show me all the ways that I may offer my assistance to any of those who are currently starving. I send blessings out to each and every one of them and pray for the end of world hunger. Thank you again for this meal and all the nutrition it brings me. I love You God. Amen.”
Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson