A Thanksgiving Prayer

Nov 19, 2021

I have copied a prayer I used a few years ago for our multi-family Thanksgiving prayer - maybe you can modify and use it this year.

Family & Friends Thanksgiving Prayer

Our Heavenly Father,

We come together at our table with humble thanksgiving again this year.

We give you thanks …..

· For the food, work, health, and shelter, you have provided…

· For the many joys and achievements of our children and grandchildren…

· For the significant risks, the pilgrims undertook to give us this great country endowed with liberty and freedom…

· For the members of our family and friends that are not able to share with us today….

· For the loving hands that have prepared this food, we are about to eat….

· For the many gifts, you’ve given us…

· For the opportunities, you have given us to serve….

· For the brave soldiers protecting our freedom who cannot spend this day with their families.

Finally, we give you praise from Psalm 8:

O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?

O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Amen

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