Thanks

We Give Thanks For This Day

For the expanding grandeur of Creation,

worlds known and unknown,

galaxies beyond galaxies,

filling us with awe and challenging our imaginations:

We give thanks this day.

For this fragile planet earth,

its times and tides, its sunsets and seasons:

We give thanks this day.

For the joy of human life,

its wonders and surprises, its hopes and achievements:

We give thanks this day.

For our human community,

our common past and future hope,

our oneness transcending all separation,

our capacity to work for peace and justice in the midst of hostility and oppression:

We give thanks this day.

For high hopes and noble causes, for faith without fanaticism,

for understanding of views not shared:

We give thanks this day.

For all who have labored and suffered for a fairer world,

who have lived so that others might live in dignity and freedom:

We give thanks this day.

For human liberty and sacred rites;

for opportunities to change and grow, to affirm and choose:

We give thanks this day.

We pray that we may live not by our fears but by our hopes,

not by our words but by our deeds.

~ O. Eugene Pickett

Thank you for the Day

I thank You God for most this amazing

day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,

and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth

day of life and love and wings: and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing

breathing any-lifted from the no

of all nothing-human merely being

doubt unimaginably You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~ E. E. Cummings

Thanksgiving

For each new morning with its light,

For rest and shelter of the night,

For health and food,

For love and friends,

For everything Thy goodness sends.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1803-1882