Abundance and Gratefulness
The hutch that Mark built many years ago is now decorated for Thanksgiving with symbols of abundance and gratefulness. The book, One Hundred Graces by Marcia and Jack Kelly was a gift from one of the doctors Mark worked with in Worcester, New York. This book includes blessings from many traditions, including Christian and Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist, Islamic and Native American. No matter who or what we believe to be the source of our nourishment, people of every faith offer thanks to show our gratefulness before partaking of the food provided. The bread plate that says: "Give us this day our daily bread" was a gift from Mark's sister that offers the beginning of a Christian prayer. The whole prayer is in our book and goes like this: Give us this day our daily bread, O Father in heaven, and grant that we who are filled with good things from Your open hand may never close our hearts to the hungry, the homel...