Meals

Meals are sacrifices of dollars

Or time over a cutting board.

Sacrifices made

From one to another

Like a gift

Or compliment

Or friendly embrace.

What I have I share with you

To sustain you

And those who eat

Accept.

Meals are portions of goodness

Baked into our existence,

Occasions to sacrifice

Or accept sacrifice,

To admit we've enough

And remember we need too.

And those who eat

Are nourished to share.

Receive to give.

Receive to give.

Always one before the other.

Never one without the other.

Eat to live.

Receive to give

Like God’s grace to us.

What He has He shares with us

To sustain us.

And those who eat

Receive the gift,

Accept His goodness

And are nourished to share.