HappyThanksGiving Scroll:
Lord God,
Our hearts are crowded with gratitude
once we celebrate the feast of Thanksgiving.
We have started to this our feasting table
with great pleasure and eagerness,
for we’re truly grateful for you, goodness,
for those we have received.
We pause now and, in silent prayer,
do appreciate the truly amazing generosity of the gifts.
We thank each other for gifts –
specifically for the gifts of affection and love
we have freely shared.
We’re grateful
for those who’re present only at that our feast
and for all individuals who’ve labored for each other
to be able to bring this dinner to the table.
May You, goodness, bless this Thanksgiving feast
and every one of us who shall share it
inside your holy name.
– Hays, Edward, Hopes for that Domestic Church: A Guide for Worship in your home (Kansas: Forest of Peace Books, 1979), 122.
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Giving Thanks
For that expanding grandeur of creation, worlds known and unknown, galaxies beyond galaxies, filling us with awe and challenging our imaginations:
We give thanks this very day.
With this fragile the world, its occasions and tides, its sunsets and seasons:
We give thanks this very day.
For that pleasure of human existence, its wonders and surprises, its hopes and achievements:
We give thanks this very day.
For the human community, our common past and future hope, our oneness transcending all separation, our capacity to get results for peace and justice in the middle of hostility and oppression:
We give thanks this very day.
For top hopes and noble causes, for belief without fanaticism, for knowledge of views not shared:
We give thanks this very day.
For those who’ve labored and endured for any fairer world, who’ve resided to ensure that others might reside in dignity and freedom:
We give thanks this very day.
For human liberty and sacred rites for possibilities to alter and also be, to affirm and select:
We give thanks this very day.
We pray that people may live not by our fears but by our hopes, not by our words but by our deeds.
We give thanks this very day.
– O. Eugene Pickett
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Remembering Others
O God, after i have food,
assist me to to keep in mind the hungry
After I have work,
assist me to to keep in mind the unemployed
When I’ve got a home,
assist me to to keep in mind individuals who’ve no home whatsoever
After I am without discomfort,
assist me to to keep in mind individuals who are suffering,
And remembering,
assist me to to eliminate my complacency
bestir my empathy,
and become concerned enough to assist
By word and deed,
individuals who cry out for which we ignore.
– Author Unknown
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Thanksgiving
For every new morning using its light,
For rest and shelter from the night,
For health insurance and food,
For love and buddies,
For everything thy goodness transmits.
– Rob Waldo Emerson
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Ev’ry Year Relating To This Time
God, ev’ry year relating to this time,
based on routine,
I have bowed my mind within the recognized way
and offered thanks, like some well synchronized machine
that interceded since it was time to wish.
But, God, this season differs, this season I appear to feel
America’s Thanksgiving is my very own,
that within my nation’s gratitude I’ve got a part that’s real,
a component that so far I have never known.
And, God, this season an in-depth humbleness has filled me,
a baby pride rings true throuout my soul
since i do belong, since i have and am a component,
a small a part of one tremendous whole.
I believe I understand the sensation of individuals first Americans
who stated, "We have to give thank you for this, our land."
I cherish the legal rights which are each woman’s, ev’ry man’s,
the legal rights I have just started to understand.
This season me is familiar with what all Thanksgiving Days are suitable for,
true thankfulness finally I recognize,
but, God, I am sorry it required the tragedy of war
in other lands to spread out up my eyes. Again I bow my mind however this time deep inside me stirs
a mighty prayer, a part of one vast design,
"God, assist me to make America as proud that i’m hers
like me proud, and grateful she’s mine!"
– Kathryn Kay
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Thanksgiving Is
Thanksgiving is
a time period of gratitude to God, our Creator and Provider,
whose guidance and care go before us…
and whose love is by using us forever.
Thanksgiving is
a period to mirror around the changes,
to understand that we, too, grow and alter
in one season of existence to a different.
Thanksgiving is
a time period of altering seasons, when leaves turn golden
in Autumn’s wake and apples are crisp
within the first chill breezes of fall.
Let’s recall the true concept of Thanksgiving.
With the good thing about Fall,
let’s acknowledge the numerous benefits that are ours…
let’s consider our families and buddies..
and let’s give thanks within our hearts.
– Author Unknown
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Grateful For Today
We thanks God,
for allowing the world
as well as for preserving it so far.
We appreciate the standard return of night and day,
as well as the times of year,
but for the dependability of nature as well as time.
We appreciate memory,
which helps us to construct around the encounters of history
for imagination,
which admits us to some wider world than we’re able to otherwise know
as well as for experience,
through which we plan for future years.
We appreciate your persistence around within our failings
for buddies and family that we are able to celebrate our successes
as well as for individuals nearest to all of us who support us within our occasions of need.
Bless this meal and us collected here.
Bless individuals who’ve little food or buddies to comfort them in body or spirit.
Bless individuals who’re not able to get along with us this very day,
and individuals who’ve gone before us in belief.
We find out inside your name.
– Author Unknown
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Thanksgiving for Healing
Omnipotent and eternal God,
You keep an eye on your kids,
together with your tender and loving care.
I thanks this very day
for the whim and elegance.
Thx for the healing power,
but for the abundant benefits
you’ve given me.
But first and foremost,
I’m grateful for that commitment of salvation,
given using your Boy, our Lord.
Through him, when all is finished,
there won’t be any more sickness or discomfort.
I pray in the name.
– David Bennett
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Thanksgiving Table Prayer
Lord God,
our hearts are crowded with gratitude
once we celebrate the feast of Thanksgiving.
We have started to this our feasting table
with great pleasure and eagerness,
for we’re truly grateful for you, goodness,
for those we have received.
We pause now and, in silent prayer,
do appreciate the truly amazing generosity of the gifts.
We thank each other for gifts
specifically for the gifts of affection and love
we have freely shared.
We’re grateful
for those who’re present only at that our feast
and for all individuals who’ve labored for each other
to be able to bring this dinner to the table.
May You, goodness, bless this Thanksgiving feast
and every one of us who shall share it
inside your holy name.
– Edward Hays
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