{"id":13865,"date":"2023-02-02T19:23:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/?p=13865"},"modified":"2023-02-02T19:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:23:22","slug":"say-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2023\/02\/02\/say-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Say grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13866\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2023\/02\/02\/say-grace\/a_simple_meal\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a_simple_meal.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-A320FL&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1639826198&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.03030303030303&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"a_simple_meal\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a_simple_meal.jpg?fit=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a_simple_meal.jpg?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a_simple_meal.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a_simple_meal.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/a_simple_meal.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:24px; font-family:Georgia, serif;line-height:1.5;\">Bless these thy gifts, most gracious God,<br \/>\nFrom whom all goodness springs;<br \/>\nMake clean our hearts and feed our souls<br \/>\nWith good and joyful things.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n~ <em>Source unknown<\/em><br \/>\nfrom <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zondervan.com\/9780310248729\/the-book-of-a-thousand-prayers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Book of a Thousand Prayers<\/a><\/em> by Angela Ashwin, #686<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>More grace<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/theme-for-january-2019-grace\/\">Theme for January 2019: Grace<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2020\/05\/27\/theme-still-small-voice\/\">Theme: Still small voice<\/a> [<span style=\"color:red;text-transform:uppercase;\">prayer sheet<\/span>]<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2017\/09\/16\/god-of-grace\/\">God of grace<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2022\/05\/15\/go-speak-love-forgive-receive\/\">Go. 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Receive.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2022\/04\/04\/continue-by-grace\/\">Continue by grace<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2022\/03\/05\/for-courage-and-grace\/\">For courage and grace<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2018\/04\/18\/within-the-ranks-of-caring-angels\/\">Within the ranks of caring angels<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2020\/07\/14\/slow-time\/\">Slow time<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2020\/06\/04\/a-holy-space\/\">A holy space<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2018\/09\/21\/in-the-school-of-prayer-with-brother-lawrence\/\">Balm to heal the world<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Bless these thy gifts, most gracious God, From whom all goodness springs; Make clean our hearts and feed our souls With good and joyful things. &nbsp; &nbsp; ~ Source unknown from The Book of a Thousand Prayers by Angela Ashwin, #686 &nbsp; More grace Theme for January 2019: Grace Theme: Still small voice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2023\/02\/02\/say-grace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Say grace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-13865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","tag-more-grace"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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