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2024-04-16 2024-04-16

How to Say Grace

Saying grace before a meal is one of the most common and universal forms of spoken prayer -- but how can you know you're doing it right?

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

Saying grace before a meal is one of the most common and universal forms of spoken prayer, a ritual that many of us hold onto after others may have faded from use. It just seems right to thank God for our meal. It’s one of those things we feel we should pass on to our children – and grandkids.

The following blessings were posted by Beliefnet members and scoured from elsewhere on the Internet. They range from familiar to innovative, pious to pithy.

^{Saying Grace by Norman Rockwell}

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

“Just be thankful. That is the substance of it. There is no formula, necessarily. Just be thankful and express it.”

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

“Saying grace should come straight from the heart - express how YOU feel. There is no wrong way to say grace as long as you praise your Lord and thank him for the things he has provided you. Changing the way you say grace daily makes it personal to you - it is an experience that most people say brings them closer to Him.”

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

We start dinner by all holding hands and saying "Bless us O Lord and for These Thy Gifts which we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful. Amen." If we want to add a special prayer we say "Father God we thank you for all your good gifts and blessings and we want to lift up (name) to you." Amen.

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

"Thank you Lord for the opportunities you have provided us in life, for the continued stability of our families, for the love we share and smiles that are so often on our faces. Amen."

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

Prayer offered in behalf of others will have a fine effect if it comes from a humble heart and is expressed with due balance and consideration. It will build up the spirituality of those listening and will strengthen their relationship with Jehovah God. In such prayer thanks and praise are given for His spiritual and material provisions, asking that He will direct the nourishment to be used for the benefit of those partaking and that the food will strengthen them to serve him.

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

“Pour out your heart to God whenever you pray. Preprinted words are not sincere. Just as you would communicate with a human parent, freely and respectfully, do so with our Heavenly Father.”

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

"Rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub, YAAAAAAAY God!"

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

"Bless us, O Lord, and these thine gifts, which we are about to receive from thy bounty."

^{Old Woman Saying Grace (1656) by Nicolaes Maes}

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

When I was a little kid, we used to say: “God is great, God is good, and we thank Him for our food. Amen.”

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

Just say what is in your heart. Thank God for the food he has provided, bless the hands that prepared the meal, in Jesus name, Amen. Short and to the point. It is all about being thankful to God.

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

"For every grain of rice we are thankful for thousands of workers. For every drop of rain we are thankful for God's blessings. Amen."

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

"Blessed art thou O Lord, King of the universe, who brings forth the bread from the earth."

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

Before the meal we pray: "Come Lord Jesus, Be our guest, And let these gifts to us be blest. Amen." Following the meal we pray: "We thank thee Lord for meat and drink, In Jesus' name we pray."

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

“Creator, Sustainer and Life-giver, Bless this food to our use, and us to your service, make us grateful for all your mercies, and mindful of the needs of others. Amen.”

^{Family Praying by Norman Rockwell}

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

An old Scottish blessing: “Some hae meat and cannae eat. Some nae meat but want it. We hae meat and we can eat and sae the Lord be thankit.”

Translated: “Some have meat and cannot eat. Some no meat but want it. We have meat and we can eat and so the Lord be thanked.”

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

My parents taught me this growing up: God is great, God is good. Let us thank him for our food. By his hand, we are fed, Give us, Lord, our daily bread. Amen

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

"Praise the Lord for this meal in front of us, for the health we are fortunate to have, for the happy times the people at this table have shared, and the happy times to come. Amen."

Let us thank our Creator!

Let us thank our Creator!

"Lord bless this food to our use ... and us to Thy service, and make us ever mindful of the needs of others. Amen."

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