This speech, or more accurately prayer, from the movie Shenandoah made me smile. The father of a large family in the Old West [update: oops, it's actually Virginia during the American Civil War] is saying grace before dinner.
Lord, we cleared this land, we ploughed it, sowed it, harvested it. We cooked the harvest. It wouldn’t be here, we wouldn’t be eating it, if we hadn’t done it all ourselves. We worked dog bone hard for every crumb and morsel but we thank you just the same anyway, Lord, for this food we’re about to eat. Amen.
Taking credit for your own hard work seems like the right attitude to me!
I think I prefer the one in the Simpsons (it’s the one where Burns is running for Mayor and has dinner at the Simpsons as part of the campaign) where Bart is asked to say Grace and says something like “Dear Lord, We worked and paid for this food, so thanks for nothing. Amen”
Well remembered – I’d forgotten about that!