Giving Thanks

There is so very much I have to thank God 

for sharing with me. 

Here, in no specific order, are a very few 

of God's blessings that I have received:

God, we offer you thanks and praise

for all the surprising graces which come to us,

for those that sustain our lives and those that change them:

for food, familiar diets, and startling new aromas and tastes;

for homes, places of steady surroundings, and settings for redemptive love;

for friendships, old friends who are willingly open in their affection and their correction, and new friends who remind us that your spirited presence still dwells within us and others;

for tasks to perform two actions which we do well and which give order to our days and tasks in which we fail which restore a needed humility to us;

for Jesus Christ,

and for all priced has done and will do for us…

In Christ’s name we pray.

Amen.

~ Reprinted from Book of Worship © 2002 by permission of the United Church of Christ Local Church Ministries, Worship and Education Ministry Team