Eating is a moral act. Our tables need to include those who have been excluded. Our food choices need to consider
all those who farm, their families, our rural landscape, farm communities everywhere – all in relation to our religious
and moral values.
We are what we eat. By our choices we shape the agrarian world, our world. By our diets and food conversations, we
influence others. Let us remember the challenge we have to shape a world of justice and peace.
O, Lord
Help us to remember where our bread comes from
and why we yearn for living waters.
Teach us your guiding principles
for reverence of your Creation.
Show us how to turn the ground into
a sacred commons once again.
Guide us to cover the earth with a lasting agriculture.
Help us make a place at the table for everyone.
Grace us when we eat with justice on our plate.
Then fill us with joy.
Amen.
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