Below was started in year 2016, and I just finished it today 12-27-2023
Immanuel Lutheran Olivette Day School
Come lord Jesus, be our guest, let those gifts to us be blessed.
Hope Montessori Academy Creve Coeur
Thank you for this day , thank you for this food, thank you for the friends we have and our families, bona boti, you may eat.
Hope Montessori Infant Toddler Community (Creve Coeur)
Look around you will see a friend, a family, we are brothers and sisters too.
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(I forgot the exact grace before dinner at Fraternity. I recall there may be something about brotherhood. If I look carefully enough, it may be in some of the materials I still have)
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Oh, God, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what can not be helped, and insight to know the one from the other.
Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name;
Thy kingdom come;
Thy will be done
in earth, as it is in heaven:
Give us this day our daily bread;
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive them that trespass against us;
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil;
For thine is the kingdom,
the power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.
I came across this prayer on a Sunday at a friend’s friend’s house: baby shower (Nov 2013). I was just told by my recruiter that my contractor position would end in 2 weeks on the Friday evening prior. And I suspect someone at the company I worked at, may have said bad things about me then. I don’t have proof, just suspicion. Now I think it’s more a business decision, change of direction basically. The prayer made a difference on how I feel about the situation, or at least how I wanted to approach the things.
I got a job offer a few days later 🙂
Prayer before bed
Probably not as common as the prayer before the meals. But when our older daughter was younger, I usually say a few prayers before she goes to bed. A few years ago, she would say “love” to everyone before going to sleep. Now our younger one does the same.