\n<\/p>\nFor each new morning with its light, <\/p>\n
For rest and shelter of the night, <\/p>\n
For health and food, <\/p>\n
For love and friends, <\/p>\n
For everything Thy goodness sends. <\/p>\n
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
O God, we thank you for this earth, our home;<\/p>\n
For the wide sky and the blessed sun,<\/p>\n
For the salt sea and the running water,<\/p>\n
For the everlasting hills<\/p>\n
And the never-resting winds,<\/p>\n
For trees and the common grass underfoot.<\/p>\n
We thank you for our senses<\/p>\n
By which we hear the songs of birds,<\/p>\n
And see the splendor of the summer fields,<\/p>\n
And taste of the autumn fruits,<\/p>\n
And rejoice in the feel of the snow,<\/p>\n
And smell the breath of the spring.<\/p>\n
Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty;<\/p>\n
And save our souls from being so blind<\/p>\n
That we pass unseeing<\/p>\n
When even the common thornbush<\/p>\n
Is aflame with your glory,<\/p>\n
O God our creator,<\/p>\n
Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.<\/p>\n
-Walter Rauschenbusch<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
i thank You God for most this amazing<\/p>\n
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees<\/p>\n
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything<\/p>\n
which is natural which is infinite which is yes<\/p>\n
(i who have died am alive again today,<\/p>\n
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth<\/p>\n
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay<\/p>\n
great happening illimitably earth)<\/p>\n
how should tasting touching hearing seeing<\/p>\n
breathing any–lifted from the no<\/p>\n
of all nothing–human merely being<\/p>\n
doubt unimaginable You?<\/p>\n
(now the ears of my ears awake and<\/p>\n
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)<\/p>\n
-e.e. cummings<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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