Giving Thanks

In Canada it is Thanksgiving Weekend!

Above is a glimpse of 'fruit of thankfulness'.

Whole family is home today for Thanksgiving Dinner

(at least they are until one leaves for post-season Bluejay's baseball game, but that's for a different post;-)

...so much to be thankful for!

May our thanks be raised to much more than thin air

But to the Lord of all

  Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.  

 For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods. 

 Ps.95:2-3

For stages set with living’s ‘Yet’

And pages writ with Past

For smiles and tears that rile the years

Where soon their boon is cast

For bread to win and mouths to feed

For gardens gilt with full-grown seed

For God, who satisfies our need

We worship and give thanks

For untamed hours that unchain flow’rs

For bowers bent with fruit

For autumn field culled of its yield

For orchard’s ample loot

For earth-havens of home, sweet home

Where mothers call and children come

For love-laugh-labor’s humble sum

We worship You, O Lord

For hands to fold, for arms to hold

For sky-scapes that amaze

For quiet awe as nature’s law

Seals seasons from our gaze

For grace that grants a second chance

For lips to kiss and feet to dance

For soul and body sustenance

God, hear our songs of praise

For Faith’s reward, we thank You, Lord

Though trial seems unjust

We rest-assured for You secured

The Hope whereby we trust

We thank You for this Crux of joy

That nothing on earth can destroy

…for twilight’s lull and dawn’s ahoy

And your mercy to us

© Janet Martin