Thank and Pray

This Thanksgiving...

As we thank God for our families and friends
Let us pray for those who are lonely.

As we thank God for our homes and fireplaces
Let us pray for those who can't get a bed in the homeless shelters tonight, because they are full, and it's 35 degrees.

As we thank God for our jobs and paychecks
Let us pray for those who have lost theirs, or a in transition.

As we thank God for the Turkey
Let us pray for those who are hungry.

As we thank God for peace
Let us remember those in Congo, Central America, the Middle East and elsewhere, who live with the daily fear and threat of war.

As we thank God for our free will, our abilities, and our education
Let us pray that we will find opportunities to use those to help others this holiday season and the whole year through.

- Janelle

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Blessed be the ones
who dance
in the corridors of death,
who sing
in the hallways of terror,
who laugh
in the prisons of fear,
who shout
across the silencing walls,
who love
beyond the borders of hatred,
who live
to welcome home freedom,
who die
never turning their heads,
who return
as the rising of hope.

(Sing the Journey Worship Book,2005)