Meal Blessing for a Celebration

A meal blessing for a celebration. I wrote this for a graduation party for a child from kindergarten to first grade, but it could be used or adapted for any meal celebrating a person: birthday, baptism, etc.

​​Earthmaker and Lover of creation,
we know that this food before us
has already been blessed by sun, earth, and rain.
We are grateful 
for the hidden gifts of life in this food.*
We pause for a moment to remember 
the sound of rain, 
the heat of sun, 
the hard work of many hands.

[pause]

Earthmaker and Lover of your creatures,
we know that [NAME]
has already been blessed.
We are grateful 
for the hidden gifts inside [THEM]
just waiting for the right moment to grow.
We pause for a moment to remember 
everything 
and everyone 
that brought [THEM] here today.

​[pause]
 
Earthmaker and Lover of each and every one of us,
bless this food to our bodies
and our bodies to the work of 
play,
wonder, 
and love
all year long.
 
Amen.

*These first lines are highly adapted from "Daily Meal Blessing Prayer" in Prayers for the Domestic Church. All the rest is by me.