How many of you say grace over your food?

Question

Do you say long prayers or short prayers, out loud or under your breath. Do you do it at home more often than in public? Just a survey.

Answer 1

Out loud when someone is with me ....in public and private, and short....like I would thank anyone who handed me food, but I REALLY mean it!

Answer 2

I do! I some time say short prayers either out loud in under my breath! Do you?

Answer 3

I'm terrible about saying grace at all...at home growing up we recited a prayer everyday before dinner...Now my husband says a short prayer before dinner when we are together! My 2 yr old usually remembers first...he loves to say AMEN !!!

Answer 4

When I eat alone I usually say one in my head or under my breath. When my family eats together at the dining table we always join hands and my oldest child says the popular blessing "God is great - God is good...".

I never let the fact that I am in public hinder my decision to say grace. I am not ashamed for someone to see me. I am proud to be a Christian and I don't care what anyone thinks.

We should all take time to thank God for what He gives us. Food, shelter, clothing, and especially for allowing His son to die for us on the cross.

Answer 5

I say thank you for everything, every day. But my gratitude and humility come from hard life lessons and plenty of days when I had nothing. I thank the Power that is higher than me, but not a "God," in particular.

Maybe I misunderstood the question. If you're deciding on whether or not to say grace in public, I would say it in your heart unless in the company of same-faith people. Otherwise, it makes for an uncomfortable situation; and, not because God is convicting the others' hearts, but because they might think you're unrelatable or judgmental.

Answer 6

I say short prayes. Out loud with my family. Most of the time (unless I forget) at home, and all of the time in public.

Answer 7

Always before meals. Silently if alone. Out loud with family or friends, even if we are in a public place.

Answer 8

hi Sara, together as there have been particularly some religions that could desire to grant nutrition to their deities, i do no longer think of this is particularly the inspiration of the custom of "announcing grace"... In historic cases, a ritual turn into finished only in the previous killing an animal to devour. the point of the ritual turn into to thank the deity(s) of that distinctive way of life for the nutrition, and to ask that the spirit of the animal be granted peace. This ritual turn into hundreds of years old while Christians accompanied it. They made some minor adjustments, which contain announcing the prayer on the time of the intake of the nutrition particularly than on the time of the dying of the animal, and that they forgot in regards to the ingredient of having concern for the spirit of the animal. even regardless of the undeniable fact that, we are able to nonetheless see a greater classic approach in use, while a Rabbi blesses meat to make it Kosher. he will flow to the slaughter-residing house to try this, and this is greater linked with creating a perfect fact to deity in regards to the spirit of the animal slaughtered, than only announcing thank you for the nutrition. in the present day we don't oftentimes kill our very own animals, and so we don't carry out the linked ritual. even regardless of the undeniable fact that many modern-day pagans do grant nutrition and drink to their deity(s), that's a sort of sacrifice. My custom would not do this, because of the clever factors of it... i.e. the nutrition is going un-eaten and could be disposed of in some opposite direction. vivid reward, Jean

Answer 9

To do it in public goes against the bible. Prayer is supose to be private. Not an attention getter.

Answer 10

When I was younger I was trained to but as I got older I faded away from it. So to answer your question no, but I think that's something I'm going to start doing again.