Hope and Thanksgiving Song

See how the light turns darkness into morning

See how the leaf falls from autumnal limb

Yet soon sweet springtime, in hope’s glad adorning

Unfurls bud-beauty in whispers of Him

See how life mingles finely, joy and sorrow

Uttered in tears; common voice of the soul

See moment-strength offer hope for tomorrow

See how God’s mercy embraces the whole

See how the power of love has no borders

See how no hand can abolish its prayer

Over the ocean to earth’s farthest corners

God intercedes; hope need never despair

Blessed assurance; from Eden’s beginning

See how I AM is forever the same

Man is a creature of pitiful sinning

Hope clings to Jesus who covers our shame

See how Time heals life’s deepest disappointments

And how earth's seasons return to the sod

Yet our faith, an intangible substance

Fills us with hope and thanksgiving to God

© Janet Martin

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada. (Today is the Canadian Thanksgiving.)

Give Thanks. Ps. 136