Grace

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 themwho 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 ~

(In Praise of Fetile Land, edited by Claudia Mauro)






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