I put a blessing on you that God shower you throughout your life with His amazing "hesed" grace of love, wisdom, health, peace and prosperity. He loves you so much.
I want to relate an incident that happened to me recently.
I was in a very small town in New Mexico recently, staying in a hotel for the night. My assistant and I ate supper in the hotel restaurant. We run on prayer with all our activities and eating a meal is no different. We said grace over our food when the waitress brought it to the table, never giving it a second thought in a room full of diners.
A few minutes into our meal, the manager of the hotel approached us to say how happy she was to see us saying grace. (I did not see her and her husband say grace over their meal.) She also asked if we had seen a picture that hung in the hallway, from the lobby to the restaurant, showing a man praying over his food. "No", I commented. She explained that she hung the picture so people would know that it was alright to say grace in her establishment. I commented that if it were not allowed, we would not stay in her hotel.
Okay, it was very nice of her to acknowledge us saying prayer.
BUT . . . . why did we stand out in the crowd? Shouldn't thanks be said over food wherever you are? Why does she feel that it is necessary to okay praying in her establishment? This is a very sad commentary on prayer in public.
It is such a small gesture to thank God for food set before us when He freely gives us so much - more than we are even aware of on a day to day basis.
Sadly, unless we start living our beliefs, it is going to become a CRIME to pray at a table, in a restaurant we are supporting, over food that we are paying for.
Amen
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