Dinner prayers

While I’m usually out the door to work before the kids have breakfast, we do have the chance to have dinner together as a family. Part of that time is the dinner prayer. Rather than some great expository proclamation, mealtime prayers tend to be fairly routine, especially when you’re teaching young kids to pray.

Ours tends to go something like this:

Dear Lord God,
You are an awesome and mighty God, creator of the sun/rain/clouds/snow (whatever the weather of the day was).
We thank you and bless you for the time we had to work and play and learn today.
We ask for your blessing on our time remaining today and on our sleep tonight.
We look forward to serving you tomorrow!
In the name of your son, Jesus Christ,
Amen.

Which is followed by the kids:

Please bless this food and the water/milk/juice (whatever we’re drinking),
and the hands that made it.
Amen!