Prayer of the Day

Father, we pause before we eat to remember where this food came from: from Your earth, through many hands, to our table.

Thank You for this meal and for every meal — for the ones who grew it, the ones who made it, and the ones we share it with.

Bless this food to our bodies, and our lives to Your service. And feed those, Lord, who have no table like this one.

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Father, the house is quieting down, and I bring You my family before I sleep.

Thank You for every person under this roof tonight, and for the ones we love sleeping under other roofs — across town, across the world. One family, kept in one set of hands: Yours.

Forgive us for the ways we were impatient with each other today. We are hardest, somehow, on the people we love most. Let no sharp word from today follow any of us into tomorrow.

Watch over each one as they sleep. Give the tired ones deep rest. Give the worried ones peace. Give the little ones good dreams.

Thank You that home isn't the walls — it's the people, and it's You in the middle of us. Keep us close to each other, and closer to You.

Goodnight, Father. We're all in Your keeping now.

In Jesus' name, Amen.