Our Daily Grace

The Pater Noster prays our daily bread,
yet we should also pray our daily grace,
we need to nourish more our souls instead,
with bread that’s spread from God’s eternal space.

Our souls are fed by promised bread from heaven,
by sacraments and Mass and Eucharist,
by sins confessed, forgotten for forgiven,
by spiritual grace that ever will persist.

This daily grace we merit by faith and deeds,
by humble hope and most by holy love,
to help the hungry and their daily needs,
our spirits fed less here, more from above.

I sense, O Lord, when all our days are through,
our daily bread is daily grace to You.

                by Pete Voelz     2/2/15