One of our family’s favorite table prayers goes this way: "By your hand we all are fed. Thank you, Lord, for daily bread." Our family prays those words, then each individual names one "daily bread" for which he or she is thankful. Then we end the prayer by repeating the words, "By your hand …" It serves as a reminder to us that the daily bread that God provides for us is far more than just the stuff we fill our stomachs with.In this our family’s prayer, many things have been named over the years. God has been thanked for dogs, cats, butterflies, school, family, butterflies, rain, safe trips, butterflies, bicycles, fun days, butterflies (Hannah, our youngest, used to really appreciate butterflies), our home, thunder, lightning and, yes, even food. Daily bread consists of all that which God provides for our sustenance each and every day. The list could never be completed, for God’s providence is unlimited. But there is one item that I suspect is all too often left off a person’s thankfulness list. Not because it is low in priority, but because it doesn’t occur to people that it is eligible to be included as an example of "daily bread." Each of us would properly refer to that item with the word "me."You are daily bread for others. You are one of the countless but important morsels of sustaining food that lies on the plates of more people than you realize. One of the regular exercises I do with my confirmation class is to ask, "How have you served others in your day-to-day lives?" The question is to get them to think about how it is that God has provided them as daily bread for others. And if daily bread is provided for others, it benefits us as well. For when others are fed, the community is fed, and we are fed with a healthy community. More and more daily bread. Around and ’round it goes merrily on.How have you been daily bread in another’s life? Here’s how. You have been such in doing your job responsibly, in your volunteering, in your play, in your relationships. So, when you thank God for the daily bread he so graciously gives, you can thank God for you.Moreover, thanking God for daily bread is thanking God not only for the daily bread you have been in someone else’s life, but for the daily bread which is precisely that opportunity to help, to love, to serve, to support, to cry with another. Your daily bread includes the opportunity to serve well that customer over the counter with a smile, or to pick up that barrel or bin full of trash, or to help change that tire and get them on their way, or to change that diaper, or to walk that neighbor’s dog, or to pick up that candy wrapper along the path, or just be that son or daughter, mother or father, grandpa or grandma.You are daily bread for others. The opportunity to be that is daily bread for you.For the broccoli, the steak, the spud and the cake, And the butterfly, which seems not much; For the chance to give as we have received, To help others in a clutch. … By your hand we all are fed. Thank you, Lord, for daily bread.