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Thanksgiving Prayer

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Mark Hunter, 1987


"We would like to use this day of Thanksgiving to vocalize to you our appreciation of our good fortune, and to tell you how thankful we are for the good life you have given to us, the good life we so often take for granted. You have been magnanimously generous to all or us here, and we have much to thank you for.

First and most visibly, we thank you for the mouth-watering feast decorating the table before us, and we thank you for the opportunity to eat to our fill and to not have to worry about where our next meal is coming from, as we realize some people do.

Secondly, we thank you for our well-being and comfort, and our fine health which has lasted through the years. We thank you for keeping us safe and away from sickness, because we also realize that some people are not as fortunate as we are, and don’t have our magnitude of health and soundness.

Although we have much more to thank you for, lastly we would like to give thanks for the strong, loving bonds you have given us within our family, and the hundreds of beautiful memories of unselfish, unconditional love, and this, Lord, we thank you for the most because this is what our family is based on. Along with this love we thank you for the feelings of contentment, satisfaction and fullness that it brings to us when we receive love from another or when we give it away to someone else. Lord, we are eternally grateful for the ability of being able to love, because we know that real love is a rare thing and that most people don’t have much of it.

Lord, we thank you for a million other things that you have given to our family, and we want you to know that we do not take them for granted."

Amen