PRAYER OF THANKS TO THE LORD. Accept, OLORD,Our thanks and praise for all you have done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love. We thank you for the blessing of family and friends ,and for the loving care that surrounds us on every side. We thank you for setting us at task which demand our best efforts, and for leading us to accomplishments which satisfy and delight us. We thank you also for those disappointments and failures that lead us to acknowledge our dependence on you alone. Above all we thank you for your Son Jesus Christ; for the truth of his word and the example of his life; for his steadfast obedience,by which he overcame temtation; for his dying, through which he overcame death;and for his rising to life again, in which we are raised to the life of your kingtom, Grant us the gift of your Spirit, that we may know him and make him known; and through him, at all times and in all places, may give thanks to you in all things. AMEN

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