A General Thanksgiving

October 18 12:10am
A General Thanksgiving
Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love.
We thank you for the blessing of family and friends, for the loving care which surrounds us on every side.
We thank you for setting us at tasks which demand our best efforts, and for leading us to accomplishments which satisfy and delight us.
We thank you also for those disappointments and failures that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on the One.
We thank you for moments of clarity when we realize that emotions are transitory, that life, with all its problems, is beautiful, and when we recognize how dearly loved, and how undeserving, we are.
We thank you for times when we understand and embody the One.
Amen.
(Taken from the Book of Common Prayer; the end adapted by me).