Thank you God for all the gifts you have so freely bestowed upon us, for the beauty and wonder of your creation, in earth and sky and sea.
Thank you for the Indigenous peoples of this land, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa who welcomed the Ho-Chunk, Fox, Sauk, Miami, Kickapoo, and Illinois confederacy tribes and offered assistance to the first Europeans to travel here, and who are our neighbors today.
Thank you for all people who in their daily lives reveal to us the image of God, for our daily food and drink, our homes and families, and our friends.
Thank you for minds to think, and hearts to love, and hands to serve, for health and strength to work, and leisure to rest and play.
We pray for those who go without today, for the brave and courageous, who are patient in suffering and faithful in adversity.
Thank you for all valiant seekers after truth, liberty, and justice, for those who have died, in all times and places, who are alive in our memories and hearts.
Thank you God for this food, for those who labored to produce it and the hands that have prepared it. May this meal strengthen us this day, and give us hope and health in the days ahead. Amen.
Adapted from The Book of Common Prayer, page 837
