03 April 2011

A Thanksgiving Prayer

Thank You Lord for all that You gave me in past years, Thank You for the sunshiny days and for the sad and cloudy ones, for the calm afternoons and the dark nights. For the love and for all beautiful and sweet things, for the flowers and the stars.
Thank You for health and sickness, for sorrows and joys. Thank You for all that You gave me and all that You asked of me.
Thank You Lord, for Your smiling face and friendly hand that kept me strong. Thank You for the loneliness, for the work, for the worries, for the fears, for the difficulties and the tears. And for everything that brought me closer to You.

I saw Your loving hands and providence even in the negatives!
Thank You for having kept me alive, For having given me shelter, warmth and nourishment.
Thank You, Lord, for having given me friends and dear ones.
Thank You for all that You created, especially man and woman, whom You created in Your own image and likeness.
Thank You for the innocent little children in the families and for good souls, who live according to Your will.

Thank You Lord for this year and all the 365 days of this year. I am ready to do whatever You wish.
Lord, I am ready to follow You always in all circumstances, but I ask You for faith to see You in everything and everybody, for hope that I may not dismay, and charity to love You and others more each day, and to let You be loved among those around me.

Give me patience and humility, detachment and generosity, give me Lord what is good for me which You alone know, for I do not know what is good for me, I do not dare to ask. That my heart may be alert, my ears be attentive, my hands and mind active, and that I always may be ready to do Your Holy Will with Your grace.

Lord! Pour out Your grace and blessings upon all my beloved ones and grant the entire world Your peace. Thank You Lord. Amen.

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