Thanksgiving Prayers
Thanksgiving isn't only about sharing a wonderful meal with your loved ones, it is also a time to meditate on all you are grateful for. This practice of expressing gratitude is not limited to any particular religious tradition. To that end, Beliefnet has compiled prayers of gratitude from a variety of religions in honor of Thanksgiving.
Read the first prayer in our Thanksgiving Prayers gallery.
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Prayer of Thanksgiving
We gather today, Lord of abundant life, as grateful children. Delighted and humbled by our bounty, we celebrate gifts of food and shelter, of colors that dance at dawn and dusk; we relish the scent of cooking foods, of burning leaves and summer's wet grass, of snowflake, of animal fur. We marvel at the intricacy of spiders' webs and fish bones, newborn babies and lines etched on faces of grandparents come for a visit today. All gifts from Your hand. When our meal is completed, leftovers stashed, and naps taken, we will leave replete, energized, and eager to go generously into the world and share our good fortune.
Author Unknown
Thank You for My Life
Thank You for My Life
Dear God, thank you for my life on this earth, however challenging or not.
By Debbie Gissoni
In Gratitude for Family and Friends
In Gratitude for Family and Friends
Blessed are You, loving Father,
Catholic Doors Ministry
Prayer of Thanks for Creation
Prayer of Thanks for Creation
Great and Eternal Mystery of Life, Creator of All Things, I give thanks for the beauty You put in every single one of Your creations.
Author Unknown
Prayer for Thanksgiving Surprises
Prayer for Thanksgiving Surprises
For a friend's unexpected call,
By Vienna Cobb Anderson
Thanks for Provision
Thanks for Provision
Almighty and gracious Father, we give you thanks for the fruits of the earth in their season and for the labors of those who harvest them. Make us, we beseech thee, faithful stewards of thy great bounty, for the provision of our necessities and the relief of all who are in need, to the glory of thy Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Book of Common Prayer (1979)
Prayer of Thanks
Prayer of Thanks
Throughout all generations we will render thanks unto Thee
Author Unknown
With Every Breath
With Every Breath
With every breath I take today,
Author Unknown
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