A Thanksgiving Prayer

“Thank you, Loving Creator, for family and friends who gather remotely, in person, or in spirit around our Thanksgiving table. Thank you for being our guiding radiance and our unending source of goodness. Thank you for food, shelter, clothing, and our abundance. Thank you for challenging us, urging us by your grace to grow deeper and more whole. Thank you for the amazing gift of our life, for the complexity and beauty of the human person. Thank you for the magnificence of our Universe and the nurturing gift of our planet. Thank you for sleep that restores, prayer that strengthens, friendship that comforts, laughter that releases, tears that heal, hearts and bodies that mend, minds that find meaning, arms that embrace. Thank you, Loving Creator. Amen.” -Joyce Rupp, Out of the Ordinary