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Thanksgiving

A Prayer:

1. A General Thanksgiving

Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have
done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole
creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life,
and for the mystery of love.

We thank you for the blessing of family and friends, and for
the loving care which surrounds us on every side.

We thank you for setting us at tasks which demand our best
efforts, and for leading us to accomplishments which satisfy
and delight us.

We thank you also for those disappointments and failures
that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on you alone.

Above all, we thank you for your Son Jesus Christ; for the
truth of his Word and the example of his life; for his steadfast
obedience, by which he overcame temptation; for his dying,
through which he overcame death; and for his rising to life
again, in which we are raised to the life of your kingdom.

Grant us the gift of your Spirit, that we may know him and
make him known; and through him, at all times and in all
places, may give thanks to you in all things. Amen

A Reading

  148  Laudate Dominum
   
1 Hallelujah!
Praise the LORD from the heavens; *
    praise him in the heights.
   
2 Praise him, all you angels of his; *
    praise him, all his host.
   
3 Praise him, sun and moon; *
    praise him, all you shining stars.
4 Praise him, heaven of heavens, *
    and you waters above the heavens.
   
5 Let them praise the Name of the LORD; *
    for he commanded, and they were created.
   
6 He made them stand fast for ever and ever; *
    he gave them a law which shall not pass away.
   
   
7 Praise the LORD from the earth, *
    you sea-monsters and all deeps;
   
8 Fire and hail, snow and fog, *
    tempestuous wind, doing his will;
   
9 Mountains and all hills, *
    fruit trees and all cedars;
   
10 Wild beasts and all cattle, *
    creeping things and wingèd birds;
   
11 Kings of the earth and all peoples, *
    princes and all rulers of the world;
   
12 Young men and maidens, *
    old and young together.
   
13 Let them praise the Name of the LORD, *
    for his Name only is exalted,
    his splendor is over earth and heaven.
   
14 He has raised up strength for his people
and praise for all his loyal servants, *
    the children of Israel, a people who are near him.
    Hallelujah!