Title

Grace

Authors

Brooks Sterritt

Files

Description

At the table, ready to eat. I hope they don’t ask me to bless the food. They do. “Be present at our table…” Nervous. Can they hear doubt in my voice? Everpresent, effervescent Lord, we beseech thee to pencil us in for a brief moment of conscience-assuagement and dietary protection. “...be here and everywhere adored...” How great thou art: here, there, and everywhere, hence it should be effortless to come down, enter into my consciousness for a yoctosecond.

Publication Date

2011

Keywords

prayer narrative

Disciplines

Creative Writing | Religion

Comments

"Grace" was originally published at On Earth As It Is.

Image by Matthew Simmons.

Recommended Citation

Sterritt, Brooks, "Grace" (2011). On Earth As It Is. 34.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/onearth/34