by Catherine Pulsifer
Father,
Thanksgiving Day we gather here
Full with thanks and full of cheer.
Lord, we thank you for all our blessings
Our family, friends and all good things.
We know the good comes from you
You are with us in whatever we do
We praise you, we worship you
We are thankful that is so true.
Thank you for the food we eat
Thank you for our family and friends
Thank you for being with us
Words just cannot express
The love and thanks from all of us!
Happy Thanksgiving Quotes
by May Carlexon Lord
For fun and friends and daily food;
For children — my beatitude;
For strength to meet life’s sudden shocks;
For apple-boughs and hollyhocks;
For snow in winter, fairy lanes;
For peacefulness and growing pains;
For books by poet, seer and sage;
For easy chairs and middle-age;
For embers on the hearth, for songs;
For faith that triumphs over wrongs;
For laughter and remembered pranks;
For prayers at night — I give Thee thanks!
Prayer for Strength
By Janie Mohanna
We thank Thee, Lord, for flowers and trees,
For laughing children, buzzing bees,
For all Thy gifts, both great and small;
We thank Thee, Lord, for all.
We thank Thee, Lord, for sunshine bright,
For stars and moon that shine by night,
For soft white snow and rains that fall.
We thank Thee, Lord, for all.
We thank Thee, Lord, for day and night;
We thank Thee for the seasons bright;
We thank Thee for the winter bold,
For gay spring with her wealth untold;
For summer when vacations call,
For bountiful harvest in the fall.
We thank Thee, Lord, for all.
We thank Thee, Lord, for things so dear,
Our church, our home, our friends so near,
Our eyes, our ears, our voice to sing.
We thank Thee, Lord, for everything.
by Patrick E. Loukes
Lord
This day
At this table
In this company
Touch us in this place.
Fill our hearts with Your love,
Keep our sympathy and compassion
Always fresh and
Our faces turned towards heaven
Lest we become hard and forget,
As we love You, we shall gift
Each other with patience
And Love.
Thanksgiving Poems
by by Author Unknown
Lord Jesus, make our lives one long thanksgiving,
One loving service rendered unto Thee;
Risen with Thee, for Thee and in Thee living,
Keep us thine own, dear Lord, eternally.
by Poet: William Dean Howells
Lord, for the erring thought
Not into evil wrought,
Lord, for the wicked will,
Betrayed and baffled still,
For the heart from itself kept,
Our thanksgiving accept.
For the ignorant hopes that were
Broken to our blind prayer;
For pain, death, sorrow, sent
Unto our chastisement;
For all loss of seeming good,
Quicken our gratitude.
by Sara F. Hills
Thank you, stars
That shine so bright.
Thank you, moon
For your silvery light.
Thank you, sun
For your warmth and cheer.
Thank you, Lord
For friends held dear.
Thank you, Father
In Heaven above —
For health, contentment,
Peace and Love.
And when ill fortune
Turns her face
To greet me
In the Market Place —
May the Thanks I give
Help me to live
And still say — Thank you!
by George Mayo Gerrish
Almighty God!
We thank Thee for the peace and comfort of the night;
for the new day and all the hope and peace and promise
that it brings to us.
Help us that with glad faces and joyous hearts
we may take up its every privilege and duty,
doing, in the spirit of the Master every good
and helpful thing our hands find to do.
And when the evening shall have come may we look back on a day of
plenty, service, and peace, retiring to our rest with songs in our hearts
and thanksgiving on our lips because Thy blessings have been on this,
as on all other days new every morning and fresh every evening.
Amen.
Thanksgiving Blessings
by Thomas Durley Landels
Thank God for life, with all its endless store
Of great experiences, of hill and dale,
Of cloud and sunshine, tempest, snow and hail.
Thank God for straining sinews, panting breast,
No less for weary slumber, peaceful rest;
Thank God for home and parents, children, friends,
For sweet companionship that never ends:
Thank God for all the splendor of the earth,
For nature teeming with prolific birth:
Thank God for sea and sky, for changing hours,
For trees and singing birds and fragrant flowers.
And so in looking back at eighty-three
My final word to you, my friends, shall be:
Thank God for life; and when the gift's withdrawn,
Thank God for twilight bell, and coming dawn.
by Henry Meade Bland
'Tis not alone the grateful word we give,
Spirit Divine, for sun, and flower, and rill,
And furry folk, and birds that live
On leafy-mantled hill;
Nay, not for these, the eye we lift.
And chant the song of praise in solemn part;
But for thy wondrous spirit-gift.
The kindly human heart
by Benjamin Walter Rogers Tayler
To-day, Lord, a grateful race.
We sing our sacred lays,
In stately fane or humbler place
We hymn to Thee our praise.
For all the joy the forest yields
Ablaze with scarlet stain.
For wealth of soil, for fruitful fields.
For stores of golden grain.
For peace and calm on land or sea,
For blessings ever sure.
We know, O Lord, they come from Thee
Whose mercies still endure.
With grateful heart and thankful voice
Thy constant care we pray.
Before Thy Throne we now rejoice
On our Thanksgiving Day.
Be Thankful Poems
Poet: Emma Jones
We thank thee, Lord, for morning light
And for each day so clear and bright;
We thank thee for the noonday sun
And for the night when day is done.
Father in heaven, we thank thee.
We thank thee for the sky so blue,
And for the moon and stars too;
We thank thee much that while we sleep
The guardian angels vigil keep.
Father in heaven, we thank thee.
We thank thee for the flowers sweet
And for the grass about our feet;
We thank thee for all kinds of trees.
With buds and bloom and fruit and leaves.
Father in heaven, we thank thee.
We thank thee for the bees and birds
And for the useful flocks and herds,
That for mankind thou mad'st to live,
And that to him dost all things give.
Father in heaven, we thank thee.
We thank thee for the Bible dear,
With messages of love and cheer,
And that it to the people still
Reveals thy precious, holy will.
Father in heaven, we thank thee.
We thank thee for the Savior kind
To heal the sick, the lame, the blind,
And that he shed his precious blood,
Redeeming our lost souls to God.
Father in heaven, we thank thee.
We thank thee for a home of love,
Where we shall dwell with thee above,
And for a bright and starry crown
When we shall lay our armor down.
Father in heaven, we thank thee.
Poet: Martin Rinkart
Now thank we all our God
With heart and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things hath done,
In Whom His world rejoices;
Who, From our mother's arms,
Hath blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love,
And still is ours today.
O may this bounteous God
Through our life be near us,
With ever joyful hearts
And blessed peace to cheer us;
And keep us in His grace.
And guide us when perplexed.
And free us from all ills,
In this world and the next.
All praise and thanks to God
The Father now be given.
The Son, and Him Who reigns
With them in highest heaven:
The One Eternal God
Whom earth and heaven adore;
For thus it was, is now,
And shall be evermore.
Prayer For Today
Poet: Edith H. Kinney
We thank Thee, Father, for the love
That, all the seasons thro’,
Gave sun and rain to bud and grain
That for the harvest grew.
We thank Thee for the love that brings,
Safe on their home-ward way,
Our loved ones dear from far and near,
To keep Thanksgiving Day
Poet: Edgar A. Guest
Dear Lord, accept our humble prayer
Of Thanks for all Thy watchful care;
For yield of field and vine and tree
Our hearts give gratitude to Thee.
Now lies the frost upon the vine . . .
We see another year decline;
But through the pain and strife and woe
Thy blessings manifestly show.
Dear Lord, for laughter and for song
Which have been ours . . . for righted wrong,
For steps of progress we have made,
For all the works of art and trade,
For science which has conquered pain
And given hope where hope seemed vain.
For all that helps mankind to live . . .
This day to Thee our Thanks we give.
Dear Lord, despite its pain and strife,
We thank Thee for our richer life.
This is a better world for man
Than when this closing year began.
We who have suffered still can find
Proof of thy love and mercy kind.
In all our works Thy hand we see.
And bow in gratitude to Thee.
Gratitude Poems
Poet: Kate Louise Wheeler
Not because Thou givest me
Life from care and sorrow free
Do I thank Thee, Lord, to-day;
But because in life’s dark hour,
Thou hast given peace and power
To sustain me on the way.
Not for gift of wealth or fame
Do I praise Thy kingly name
Kneeling now with grateful heart;
But for home, for friends, and health,
Greater gifts than fame or wealth,
Blessings of my life a part.
Not because the earth is bright
With a wealth of joy and light
Do I thank Thee, Lord Divine;
But because in Home above
Life eternal speaks Thy love
And the hope of Heaven is mine.
by John Glass Bartholomew
O God, our Friend and Father in heaven,
we desire to realize that all our blessings come from thee;
and may it do our hearts good to raise them towards thee,
in thanksgiving, and love, for all thy care and mercy.
