I wrote this poem during a worship service and used it before we served communion.

A Prayer Before Communion
By larry r linville

O Christ we take your body broken
and your shed blood as more than token
of a love that is beyond all words
which loves as you do little birds.

We come with nothing as a price
knowing we can never be that nice
so bless this loaf and cup we pray
and place your love in our hearts to stay.

Please pick us up and send us out
to let our lives your message shout
and send us out to serve your people
under your great world wide steeple.