{"id":2585,"date":"2024-11-27T12:15:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:16:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:16:03","slug":"does-anyone-want-to-say-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/does-anyone-want-to-say-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDoes Anyone Want To Say Grace?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we sat down to dinner, I asked, \u201cWould anyone like to say grace?\u201d Surprisingly,<br>Joe, eight years old, excitedly volunteered, \u201cI will!!\u201d to which I said, \u201cOK, go ahead,<br>then.\u201d He stood up at the table and raised his voice, \u201cGrace! Thank you for this meal!<br>Thank you for my family and our new neighbors who just moved in next door. We are so<br>happy to meet and have this great feast together and eat all this good food and<br>dessert!\u201d<br>What a terrific declaration! I never would have imagined this expression but as Joe<br>genuinely committed to the task at hand, no one corrected him. We smiled and<br>accepted his offering before the meal.<br>Do you have a sacred ritual of giving thanks before meals?<br>When I was a child, every night before dinner, my Dad said a prayer. His personal<br>reverence for the sacred and divine came through him as he blessed the meal and<br>gave a word of thanks for the food and to mom for her wonderful cooking and for us<br>as his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are five reasons you can consider why I think it is important:<br \/><br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 1. You model for your family your values. Whether it is for the farmer or for God,<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 whether a serious prayer or a joyful song, you are pausing, reflecting and<br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 acknowledging your bountiful blessings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You are allowing your child to know their own importance and significance as a<br>member of the family. You are creating meaning to your life and the lives of your<br>family.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You are cultivating the spiritual nature of the child. Your child intuitively has<br>awareness of the sacred, the gesture of grace brings to life your commitment<br>to being the presence of Love and having that love for the sacred come through<br>with your words and actions. Your child feels your emotions and intentions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You set the stage for your child to keep the channels open and commune with<br>God in their own way, perhaps, talking to the tress while in the backyard, or<br>playing with tidal pool animals at the ocean. It can happen anywhere but especially<br>poignant in the natural world around them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can start by lighting a candle at the dinner table or ringing a bell before you<br>say a word. This symbolic gesture will cue everyone, it is time to pause for praise<br>and thanksgiving. Everyday!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we sat down to dinner, I asked, \u201cWould anyone like to say grace?\u201d Surprisingly,Joe, eight years old, excitedly volunteered, \u201cI will!!\u201d to which I said, \u201cOK, go ahead,then.\u201d He stood up at the table and raised his voice, \u201cGrace! Thank you for this meal!Thank you for my family and our new neighbors who just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"spectra_blocks_featured_image_url":null,"spectra_blocks_author_info":{"display_name":"DrRoxie","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1deef107488fe7d412a4ab66de82b4375a3fb87a2ee9c8dc74c20c13f3bf03e8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_link":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/author\/drroxie\/","description":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drroxannedaleo.com\/roxie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}