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Friday, November 29, 2013

Daily Prayer - More thanks than I can give

Good Friday morning, my friends.
 
Or should I say "Good Black Friday morning".  Black Friday, as you probably know, is the Friday after Thanksgiving Day in the USA.  It is the day when retailers go from being "in the red" (losing money) to "in the black" (making a profit) for the year.  It is the biggest shopping day of the calendar year, a day when some of us, as Stompin' Tom used to sing "Save a lot of money spending money we don't got".
 
Whether you are taking part in this new shopping "tradition" today or not, let's rewind for a minute back to the Thanksgiving part. 
 

Grace and peace and great deals be yours in abundance,
Bruce
 
 
 
My Maker and my King,
To you my all I owe;
Your sovereign bounty
is the spring
Whence all my blessings flow.
 
The creature of your hand,
On you alone I live;
My God, your benefits demand
More thanks than I can give.
 
Lord, what can I impart
When all is yours before?
Your love demands a thankful heart;
My gift, alas! how poor.
 
O! let your grace inspire,
My heartfelt thanks outpour;
Let every word and each desire
And all my days be yours.
Amen.
 
(a prayer by hymnwriter Anne Steele, slightly updated, by way of http://bobhostetler.blogspot.ca/2013/11/more-thanks-than-i-can-give.html)

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