Gracious God, during this week of Thanksgiving, we are especially thankful for your countless gifts of love. There are just too many to name, and we confess that there are many blessings that we take for granted like the very breath that we are taking in this moment.
We also think of the blessings that we have due to the people who helped to make those blessings possible. Many of these blessings are out of sight out of mind, like workers out in hot fields harvesting the crops that will eventually make it into our grocery stores, scientists working long days in labs developing new life saving medicines, artists and composers working on new projects that will one day inspire and lift the spirits of many.
Thank you for all of these countless gifts of love whether they be the gifts we are conscious about or those that are beyond our awareness but are just as important. May we always be up to the challenge in being thankful for all of these blessings in our lives.
Even during this time of prayer, we are mindful of one of the greatest gifts of love that you have given us, the gift of prayer in which we can listen to your voice and express to you our deepest longings. Thank you for this incredible gift you have given to us. And so, we lift up to you the people on our church’s prayer list as well as others who are on our hearts and minds this day.
And thank you for the gift of your Son, Jesus who lived, who died, and who rose again and who taught us to pray together these words…
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
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