Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise

Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have<br>done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole<br>creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life,<br>and for the mystery of love. We thank you for the blessing of family and friends, and for<br>the loving care which surrounds us on every side. We thank you for setting us at tasks which demand our best<br>efforts, and for leading us to accomplishments which satisfy<br>and delight us. We thank you also for those disappointments and failures<br>that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on you alone. Above all, we thank you for your Son Jesus Christ; for the<br>truth of his Word and the example of his life; for his steadfast<br>obedience, by which he overcame temptation; for his dying,<br>through which he overcame death; and for his rising to life<br>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<br>make him known; and through him, at all times and in all<br>places, may give thanks to you in all things. <em>Amen."A General Thanksgiving" from The Book of Common Prayer (1979)</em>