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Content from RubelShelly.com  For the Week of November 21, 2005by Rubel Shelly Gracious God, Giver of Every Good Gift, We acknowledge that life, health, and joy * Are your pleasant favors to us. * Thus we thank you for parents, mates, and children, * For siblings, friends, and colleagues who bless our lives. We affirm your greatness at sunrise and sunset, * Praise you for productive days and the sweet rest that follows. * Yours is the glory and honor and majesty * For all the things we seek and enjoy and savor. We understand that work, responsibility, and the power to earn * Are granted to us by your sovereign goodness. * We praise you for all that has been provided to us * And for all you have enabled us to provide for others. We also recognize the deep distress that life brings to all *In the forms of loss and illness, lack and heartache. *While these are neither your intent nor work in our lives, * Even there we honor you for your faithfulness as our God. We sense your strength when we are at our weakest, * And we experience your fullness best in our emptiness. * Thus we dare to sing in prison cells and laugh at death, * For you are the God of life beyond these mortal limitations. If we sensed no pain, would we flee to you for comfort? * If no imperfection, could we marvel at your excellence? * If no insecurity, would we worship any gods but ourselves? * If no sting of sin, would we ever seek the path of redemption? On this Thanksgiving Day, then, we thank you for sunshine and storm, * For Eden that gave us a glimpse of your beauty and holiness, * For Egypt that made us desire a Land of Promise, * For Gethsemane that revealed to us a sympathetic High Priest. Whatever the life situation with any one of us today, * Teach us the spirit of thanksgiving and gratitude and joy. * For all that we have and hope for, we praise you; * For all that compels us to seek you, we praise you even more. In the Blessed and Holy Name of Jesus our Savior we pray. Amen.   |
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