Prayer for Thanksgiving

Beloved Presence, Our Creator,

Bless all who have felt empty of your nourishment this year.

Help us to find your healing light of Thanksgiving.

Bring to all people the love of family and good friends.

Provide for everyone the gift of food, love and kindness.

Bring an end to hunger and poverty.

Bring an end to divisiveness and war.

Beloved Presence, Our Creator,

Fill our world with Your abundance.

Fill each person with Your gift of prosperity.

Tether the fruits of our generous Earth

into the arms of Your healing care.

Beloved Presence, Our Creator,

Bring us together.  Help us to drop our differences.

Show us where our differences become

our greatest places of our love.

Help us to hold each other’s hand in harmony

around the table of Your Thanksgiving.

Beloved Presence, Our Creator,

Thank you for always being with us.

Thank you for always guiding us,

comforting us and sustaining us.

Today we gather as One United

Family in Thanksgiving.

We commit anew to your

purpose of healing and helping each other.

Beloved Presence, Our Creator,

With Deep Gratitude from the Light of Thanksgiving

We thank you.   Amen.

by Deirdre Hade