This is the prayer we said communally at our congregation's Thanksgiving service on Tuesday evening. It spoke to my heart and I wanted to share it with you all.
O come, let us workshop and bow down, let us kneel before God our Maker.
We come in humility, opening ourselves to God's wisdom and strength.
We are the people of God's pasture and the sheep of God's hand.
We come with expectation, that in God's presence we may know ourselves and one another, and be truly at home in the world.
So this evening we offer thanksgiving for all the gifts that have been showered upon us.
We offer thanks not only for the bounty and abundance we have, but also for troubles that shape and sharpen our patience, for doubts that let faith moments shine, and for confusion that keeps our lives from being rigid.
We offer thanks for sufferings that help us share another's grief, for fears that mark real terror in the world, and for pains that open our eyes to joy.
For sorrows that join our hands to hope and for loneliness that leads us to the heart of God.
For all those gifts by which we have become more human, we give thanks.
Now may our thanks reach out and embrace the daily small ingratitudes of our lives.
Oh, come, let us worship and bow down.
Let us kneel before God and Maker.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
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