Share this around your family table
at Thanksgiving or anytime this month!
Meal Blessing:
Come Lord Jesus be our Guest and let these gifts to us be blest. Thanks be to
God who is our bread may all the world be clothed and fed.
While you eat…
Share your highs and lows from the
year—what you are thankful for this year and what you pray for in your life or
in the world.
Read Revelation
21:4-5 “God will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more;
mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed
away.” 5And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am
making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these words are
trustworthy and true.”
Talk: Families
with young children: What is God’s promise in this verse? How does the
promise of God’s love help us to live together as family?
Families
with teens: What is the promise of
this scripture? What do you imagine it would feel like to be where there is no
more pain? How do we live this promise at school and home?
Families
of Adult(s): What is the promise is
this scripture? How do we live this promise in our daily lives? How does this
verse connect with your highs/lows and/or lead you into the future?
Pray: At the end of the meal join in prayer thanking God
for your highs and praying for your lows.
Blessing: Share this blessing around the table or before people
depart or go to bed. Mark the sign of the cross on their forehead or hand and
say, “_________(name) may you know God’s love is for you in your blessings and
in your sorrows. Amen
~LB
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