BREAD: THE STAFF OF LIFE

Please also guide and enlighten us
to find ways to feed all people,
all children, and the aged,
all over the earth,
so that all may live in good health.

Help us to bring forth upon the land
the perfection of Your kingdom on earth.

Please enlighten those who live
in the "developed nations,"
to create food without
poisoning the environment.

Guide all nations and people, Lord
to consume food reasonably,
and to not eat to excess.

Please, dear God, hold back famine,
hold back floods and untimely frosts,
hold back the molds and insects
which blight our crops.

Please make harvests richly abundant
particularly in lands
where farming is now insufficient
to nourish all the people
who need to eat and feed their children.

Please teach those who have, not to waste,
and give those who have not,
the sustenance to survive.

Bread of Life,
please feed the tiniest children
so that they may grow sturdy
and strong and live long
to take up Your work,
especially in impoverished lands.

Teach us how to share
and how to iradicate hunger
so that no infant will be malnourished
and no child must go to sleep
with an empty stomach.

Let those of us who have too much
learn how to care and share,
and how to save the lives
of those who have too little.

Amen

(c) 2011 Donn B. Murphy

Image - Child - Marianne Barcelona
Food Plate - Hayden Gems
Image - Man - Unidentified

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