Prayer for Thanksgiving Day
I thank you, O Lord, my Lord,
for my being, my life, my gift of reason;
for my nurture, my preservation, my guidance;
for my education, my civil rights, my religious privileges;
for your gifts of grace, of nature, of this world;
for my redemption, my regeneration, in instruction in the
Christian faith;
for my calling, my recalling, my manifold renewed recalling;
for your forbearance and long-suffering, your prolonged
forbearance, many a time and many a year;
for all the benefits I have received, and all the undertakings
in which I have prospered;
for any good I may have done;
for the use of the blessings of this life.
...For all these and also for all other mercies, known and unknown,
open and secret, remembered by me, or now forgotten,
kindnesses received by me willingly, or even against my will,
I praise you, I bless you, I thank you, all the days of my life.
--Lancelot Andrewes
for my being, my life, my gift of reason;
for my nurture, my preservation, my guidance;
for my education, my civil rights, my religious privileges;
for your gifts of grace, of nature, of this world;
for my redemption, my regeneration, in instruction in the
Christian faith;
for my calling, my recalling, my manifold renewed recalling;
for your forbearance and long-suffering, your prolonged
forbearance, many a time and many a year;
for all the benefits I have received, and all the undertakings
in which I have prospered;
for any good I may have done;
for the use of the blessings of this life.
...For all these and also for all other mercies, known and unknown,
open and secret, remembered by me, or now forgotten,
kindnesses received by me willingly, or even against my will,
I praise you, I bless you, I thank you, all the days of my life.
--Lancelot Andrewes


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