Giving Thanks...

Lord...

 

Thanksgiving's a particular day
    to do what I should be doing always:
        giving you thanks and praise!

 

I give you thanks 

for the many people I so often take for granted:
    those who serve me 

        in a hundred, quiet ways each day;
    the people I live and work with;
    those who make my life easier and happier;
    and all who bring me peace and joy...

 

And I thank you for all those who stand ready 

    to protect and depend me,
        in the town where I live and at posts far away;
I thank you, Lord, for all who keep me safe

    safeguarding my liberty and freedom...

 

I thank you for all those whose work brings
    food from farms,
    delight from poetry,
    love in songs
    joy in the arts;
    news from the world,
    truth from prayer,
    meals from kitchens
    and knowledge, insight and wisdom 

        from a million different sources...

 

I thank you for those who deliver 

    heat, light and clean water to my home;
those who keep my home, my church
    and my town the beautiful places they are;
those who bring the mail to my door;
and those who deliver all the comforts 

    I often take for granted...

 

I thank you for all the people

who fill my mornings, days and evenings
    with their laughter and smiles, 

    their friendship and love,
    their company and conversation...

 

I giv you thanks, Lord, 

for the awesome beauty of the world around me:
    the light of the sun, the moon and the stars;
    the ocean's tides and the river's flow,

    mountain peaks and valley depths,

    the animal kingdom, wild and tame,    
    the colors of nature, birds on the wing,
    fields of vegetables, flowers and fruit, 

         - and the peace of Georgetown, Colorado...

 

I thank you, Lord, for the gift of faith,

    for my ministry and for the people I serve,
I thank you for the word of the gospel I preach

    and the altar, the table, where we give thanks...   

 

I give you thanks and praise, Lord,
    for all things bright and beautiful
        and all things bruised and broken; 

let me find all around me,

    in everything and in everyone

the fingerprint of your grace

    and traces of your presence,

the whole of my life,

    signed by the Artist divine... 

 

Help me always and everywhere     

    give you thanks
for every good gift
    that comes from your hand...

Amen.

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