A Poem For Today - Grace

[kdick...@aol.com]

Grace

Thanks & blessings be

to the Sun & the Earth

for this bread & this wine,

this fruit, this meat, this salt,

this food;

thanks be & blessing to them

who prepare it, who serve it;

thanks & blessings to them

who share it

(& also the absent & the dead).

Thanks & Blessing to them who bring it

(may they not want),

to them who plant & tend it,

harvest & gather it

(may they not want);

thanks & blessing to them who work

& blessing to them who cannot;

may they not want - for their hunger

sours the wine & robs

the taste from the salt.

Thanks be for the sustenance & strength

for our dance & work of justice, of peace.

Rafael Jesus Gonzalez

Gracias

Gracias y benditos sean 

el Sol y la Tierra

por este pan y este vino,

esta fruta, esta carne, esta sal,

este alimento;

gracias y bendiciones 

a quienes lo preparan, lo sirven;

gracias y bendiciones

a quienes lo comparten 

(y también a los ausentes y a los difuntos.)

Gracias y bendiciones a quienes lo traen

(que no les falte), 

a quienes lo siembran y cultivan,

lo cosechan y lo recogen

(que no les falte);

gracias y bendiciones a los que trabajan

y bendiciones a los que no puedan;

que no les falte — su hambre

hace agrio el vino 

y le roba el gusto a la sal.

Gracias por el sustento y la fuerza

para nuestro bailar y nuestra labor

por la justicia y la paz.

Rafael Jesús González

[John Jai Conley]

Thanks be to you and our Heart Full Community, Ken.

❤️🙏🏼

Jai

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

John O’Donohue

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Ditto!

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