Grace from Ananda Arts House

O lord, refresh our sensibilities

Give us this day our daily taste.

Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in,
and sauces which are never the same twice.

Take away our feat of fat, and make us glad of the oil which ran upon Aaron’s beard.

Above all, give us grace to live as true humans—to fast till we come to a refreshed sense of what we have and then to dine gratefully on all that comes to hand.

Set us free once more in our own land, where we shall serve thee as thou hast blessed us—with the dew of heaven, the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine.

Amen.

(copied from the wall of the kitchen at the Ananda Arts House)