Jim Walberg’s Thanksgiving Prayer From EastBayRealEstate.com
November 22, 2009 by Jim Walberg · Leave a Comment
Why not have everyday be a day of thanksgiving? We are surrounded by so many blessings and often times we walk right by them without even noticing. And, if giving thanks everyday doesn’t work for you, at least we have one day a year when that happens. Below is the prayer we have used at our Thanksgiving table for years written by Patrick Finley. You may find it appropriate for your celebration, too. You may even want to pass it on to others. Enjoy every moment of your time with your family and friends. Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!
What a gift it is to get together with our loved ones;  feast, toast, enjoy the blessings of life – and give thanks.  Thanks for life all around us, underfoot, and overhead.
Thanks for the ability to remember those we love as well as to forget how much we’ve been hurt in our life; thanks for fine young bodies, and the old venerable minds; for the sun on our faces, the rain on the roof, and the food on our table grown by people we don’t even know.
Thanks that the jets overhead aren’t dropping their bombs, that our healing hands have a place to practice, that children are born every minute of the day, and that death is there to gather us up at the end to take us wherever is next.
And thanks for at least one day a year when we all take the time to get some perspective on what is really important in our lives – the people we love and the many blessings that surround us each day. Together we give thanks. Amen.
- Patrict Finley
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