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| Coffee in the Morning |
Good morning, good God!
Thanksgiving's
just a few days away, Lord, and I want
to be ready on Thursday to thank you
for all I have, especially what I have in abundance, all from your generous hands: Iwant to
remember the ways you've
helped me since last Thanksgiving, just a year ago...
Help me remember, Lord, all the times when your strength, not my own, helped me through my really rough patches...
Help me remember how, in your faithful love, you never abandoned or left me alone...
Help me remember the gift of your mercy and pardon each time I strayed from your grace...
Help me remember how each time I prayed you were right there, ready to hear me...
Help me remember you were there with your strength when just one more step seemed impossible...
Help me
remember the pain I endured, the hurt I survived and the healing your grace provided...
Help me remember, Lord, the people who love and care for me: family and friends, colleagues and neighbors near and far and right next door...
Help me remember, Lord, the people who love and care for me: family and friends, colleagues and neighbors near and far and right next door...
Help me remember as gifts the things I often feel entitled to: good food and clean water, warm clothing, a place to live, safety, liberty and freedom...
Help me remember, Lord, all who serve, protect and care for me, especially those whose names I do not know...
Help me remember and be grateful for my vision, my hearing, my sense of touch and all the good and beautiful things I experience through my senses...
Help me remember what I take for granted, and open my eyes to blessings and gifts I haven't used - or don't yet know are mine...
Help me remember that every good gift comes from you, my God: from your hand to mine, from your heart to mine - and all to be shared with others...
Help me remember and never forget how many are my reasons for thanking you and praising you again and again and again...
Come this Thursday, Lord, help me
remember (between the turkey and the football games) help me remember to thank you for all the gifts and blessings I've been privileged to receive...
This morning, on Thursday and every day this week I offer you thanks, my God, from whom all blessings flow...
Amen.
This morning, on Thursday and every day this week I offer you thanks, my God, from whom all blessings flow...
Amen.
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