God,

You are our strength and shield, our trustworthy God who helps us and gives us strength. Thank you, God, for this most amazing day. Thank you for the harmony of nature, the consistency of days and nights and seasons, and the wonder of each intricate and beautiful creation of yours. Thank you that even when we cannot see the sunshine, its warmth and light are shining upon us. Thank you for the every-day things of cars that start most every time, furnaces that warm chilly mornings, and infrastructure systems that keep utilities flowing. Thank you for growers, transporters, and distributors of the food we eat. Thank you for birthdays, anniversaries, and other events that remind us of your provision, protection, and faithfulness to us. We give thanks to you for opening our eyes and ears to be attentive to your Spirit wooing us into your arms of love and your Kingdom. We thank you for the gift of Jesus in our lives and for the offer of eternity spent with you in perfect love and peace. We thank you, God, for this most amazing day. Amen!

“The Lord is my strength and shield.
    I trust him with all my heart.
He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy.
    I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.

The Lord gives his people strength.” (Psalm 28: 7-8 NLT)

“Give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Ephesians 5:20 NLT)

“God’s eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place.” (2 Chronicles 7:15 NLT)

i thank You God for most this amazing

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

— e.e. cummings