Grace - Rafael Jesus Gonzalez

 Thanks and blessing be

to the Sun & the Earth

for this bread & this wine,

         this fruit, this meat, this salt,

this food;

thanks be and blessing to them

who prepare it, who serve it;

thanks and blessing to them

who share it

(& also the absent & the dead).

Thanks and blessing be to them who bring it

(may they not want),

to them who plant and tend it,

harvest and gather it

(may they not want),

thanks and blessing to them who work

& blessing to them who cannot;

may they not want - for their hunger

sours the wine

& robs the salt of its taste.

Thanks be for the sustenance & strength

for our dance & the work of justice, of peace.