mealtime prayer

Before meals together as a family, the 3 of us say the same prayer together. We began doing this several months ago as we realized it was something missing and something that we wanted to do as a family moving forward. We settled on the prayer that Steve grew up saying, and one that I was familiar with but did not say at our family table.

After hearing the prayer several times, Anna told us she wanted to say a prayer. She then opened her mouth and a lot of non-words spilled out, with an Amen at the end. We thought it was cute that she was imitating this and thought perhaps she didn't hear the words. Each night she would say the same prayer - with the exact same non-words. Finally we figured out that what she hears is the rhythm of the prayer and to her, it goes like this:



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If I say the prayer quietly I hear the rhythm she does. Do you?

Come Lord Jesus, be our guest
Let this food to us be blest
Amen

Anna's: Ter meed er peter, peter
Essey bessey