Simplest Gifts
These thanks we give fit best with simplest things, the ordinary benisons we scarcely note as our times go fleeting past. This..
Thanksgiving 2020: Give thanks for those who have helped us weather this pandemic
Scarcity, rather than abundance, may strike many as the keynote of Thanksgiving 2020, given the absence of family and friends who are..
Spend the holidays with your household: Population one
You’ve seen the pleas from the CDC: “Spend Thanksgiving with just your immediate household this year.” My sister called me this week and..
There’s Trouble All Around (a free hymn for Thanksgiving 2020)
There’s Trouble All Around LEONI 6.6.8.4 ("The God of Abraham Praise") There’s trouble all around; it’s hard for us to bear!..
Give thanks: A prayer
Give thanks in all circumstances. Your admonition, God, is clear, our execution of it inconsistent. Ours is a culture overflowing with discontent...
To Give Thanks…
is to remember how it feels to experience belonging, to look long around a laden table and be glad to claim a..
Prayer for Thanksgiving
God whose giving knows no bounds, your Word teaches us to give thanks in all circumstances. Today we take that instruction to..
Thanksgiving, equality and our history
Giving thanks is a fundamental practice in Christianity, including the Presbyterian Church. Ecumenical expressions of gratitude characterize American history. They include the..
Thanksgiving prayer: How can we not give thanks?
Gratitude follows grace, Lord of all creation, and evidence of your grace overflows, spills out and engulfs us. How then can we..
Inviting Jesus to Thanksgiving dinner
I don’t much like Thanksgiving. What’s not to like? There are the three F’s – food, family and football, not necessarily in..
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