Prayerful Eating
October 31st, 2009Saturday’s Reflection
AS YOU PREPARE and eat a meal, take the time to think about your food. Everything you are eating came from the earth. Everything was nourished by the sun and the rain and the care of a person who spent many hours growing the food so that you might be sustained. Pray into these realities. Feel the love and the care that live in each bite you take. Allow gratitude to arise in you.
- Daniel Wolpert
Creating a Life with God: The Call of Ancient Prayer Practices
From p. 144-145 of Creating a Life with God: The Call of Ancient Prayer Practices by Daniel Wolpert. Copyright © 2003 by the author. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission of Upper Room Books. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.
Today’s Question
Follow the suggestion in today’s reflection. Tell us about your experience.
Today’s Scripture Reading
John wrote, “I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God.”
- Revelation 21:2, NIV
This Week …
- Special Need:
- This Week: Pray for saints and martyrs. Add your prayer to the Prayer Wall.
- Tips for Your Spirit:
- Why Saints? Observing saints more closely reveals that they were ordinary people just like us. What set them apart was their life purpose. More than anything else, they wanted to know God. So despite their faults and frailties, they have much to teach us. Learn from Saints.
- Saints, Inc.:
- This week we remember Jude (October 28).
- Lectionary Readings:
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