Prayer After Eating

I have taken in the light
that quickened eye and leaf.
May my brain be bright with praise
of what I eat, in the brief blaze
of motion and of thought.
May I be worthy of my meat.

--Wendell Berry (1934- ), American farmer, essayist, poet, agrarian, author, environmental activist

Image: detail of a window by Emil Frei and Sons at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Ferguson, MO