For These...a Thanks Giving Song

For sweep of sky to feed the eye

For song of waterfall in trees

For poetry of land and sea

We thank You Lord, for these

For strength to hold time’s moment-gold

For lips to laugh, for hands to seize

The cup that brims with mercy-hymns

We thank You Lord, for these

For days that teach us how to reach

For nights alight with star-frothed seas

For dusk and dawn of gold-pink yawn

We thank you Lord, for these

For words to fill with warmth when chill

Of wind or want would taunt and tease

For grinning joy of girl or boy

We thank You Lord, for these

For garden-wealth, for home, for health

For this, the hope of centuries;

Amazing grace to human race

We thank You Lord, for these

For this new day to thread time’s way

Beyond this broken, begging sod

For hearts to trust in more than dust

For these, we thank you, God

© Janet Martin

It is Thanksgiving Week-end in Canada.

Oh, pray the thanks we give

is simply a continued song

of every day we live

Up early to bake apple and pumpkin pies, cinnamon-snaps (a fall favorite here),Hopefully there might be recipes and pics later today. I say might because it seems Saturdays seldom turn out like I picture them in the morning; trying to balance busyness and breath-catching beauty!