God meant that we should kneel, the short poems begins. Leora Wilson copied this longhand and kept it tucked in her small Grace Before Meals handbook. “Guthrie Center, Iowa, 1950,” she wrote inside the cover.
Kneeling God meant that we should kneel to do The things that make life good. To bathe the baby in the tub, To polish fragrant wood. To ight the fire on the hearth, To tend a flower bed. . . God didn't make us reach for these, He made us kneel instead. - Ella Carolyn Jerauld.
Grace Before Meals: Brief Prayers Arranged For Each Day in the Year compiled by A. William Nyce and Hubert Bunyea, 1938.