Riffing while blessing the food

[scottie]

One that I just heard: "... that it will provide us with energy throughout the remainider of the day."

[Green Lantern]

I always feel it slightly blasphemous when somebody blesses something like a dozen Krispy Kremes at a ward activity asking for them to "nourish and strengthen our bodies." God is powerful, but He has limits.

[Non Sequitur]

I always feel it slightly blasphemous when somebody blesses something like a dozen Krispy Kremes at a ward activity asking for them to "nourish and strengthen our bodies." God is powerful, but He has limits.

For any lawyers on the board, if I trademark the phrase "nourish and strengthen our bodies" can I get some cash every time a Mormon blesses their food?

[SCcoug]

One that I just heard: "... that it will provide us with energy throughout the remainider of the day."

I'm much more likely to bless it to be delicious than to be nutritious. I like to throw in non standard verbiage into the blessing over the food.

[Tim]

For any lawyers on the board, if I trademark the phrase "nourish and strengthen our bodies" can I get some cash every time a Mormon blesses their food?

Only if I can trademark the phrase, "we thank thee for the moisture we've received."

[BlueHair]

Only if I can trademark the phrase, "we thank thee for the moisture we've received."

I was speaking with a customer service person on the phone one time. He mentioned that he had lived in Utah a few years back and thought it was strange how everyone called rain and snow "moisture". I got a good chuckle out of it.

[wuapinmon]

Tim

Whenever I read your comment a second ago, it was like someone cut the lights on in my brain. It all makes sense.

[BigFatMeanie]

I was speaking with a customer service person on the phone one time. He mentioned that he had lived in Utah a few years back and thought it was strange how everyone called rain and snow "moisture". I got a good chuckle out of it.

I didn't like tired old verbiage of thanking the Lord for "moisture" very much either. I decided to live with it when one Sunday we had received about 8-10 inches and the widows and elderly had a really hard time getting to church. The thought occurred to me mid-prayer that it would be incongruous for me to thank the Lord for snow when it caused hardship for others. Somehow, thanking him for the moisture seems to soften the incongruity a bit.

[pellegrino]

I'm much more likely to bless it to be delicious than to be nutritious. I like to throw in non standard verbiage into the blessing over the food.

this made me laugh, well done cuz.

[wuapinmon]

I usually "bless the food and the people who labored in the fields to provide us with it" or something like that. Farmers need blessings more than my vain repetitions.

[Mrs. Funk]

I also laugh when people bless refreshments to "nourish and strengthen us." I once heard someone say in a singles ward, "Bless these donuts that they will be tasty to us and help us socialize."

[pellegrino]

hmm, I haven't asked a blessing on food in years, I only give thanks as I see that is the important thing. I don't eat food that isn't nutritious (at least at meal times) so I don't have faith that blessing it to be so will make it any more nutritious or special.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Since when did food need a blessing anyway? Isn't the main point of the prayer to give thanks?

[myboynoah]

Since when did food need a blessing anyway? Isn't the main point of the prayer to give thanks?

It's called the blessing on the food, not the thanking for the food.

[Donuthole]

Personally, I prefer blessing the food and the hands of those who prepared it. Why waste blessings on their entire body when their hands did all the work?