This is the day that God has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
—Psalm 118:24
Morning Prayer: Prayer for Expressing Gratitude
Gracious God, in the busy-ness of my day, I sometimes forget to stop to thank you for all that is good in my life.
My blessings are many and my heart is filled with gratefulness for the gift of living, for the ability to love and be loved, for the opportunity to see the everyday wonders of creation, for sleep and water, for a mind that thinks and a body that feels.
I thank you, too, for those things in my life that are less than I would hope them to be. Things that seem challenging, unfair, or difficult. When my heart feels stretched and empty, and pools of tears form in my weary eyes, still I rejoice that you are as near to me as my next breath and that in the midst of turbulence, I am growing and learning.
In the silence of my soul, I thank you most of all for your unconditional and eternal love.
Amen.
—from Prayers for Living
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I’ve been looking online for over an hour for a prayer of gratitude. Some of the pslams are beautiful, but they can be difficult to relate to life today. Most of the others were very flowery and hallmark-ish. Many of them talked about being thankful for sunshine and mountains and meadows – things that I don’t ever see in the city. Then I found your prayer. It speaks to life today. It’s realistic. I can relate to it.
I’m so glad I found it! Thanks a lot!
thank u!!! I’VE been looking for this in 1:hour good thing i see it in this website, its verry difficult to find this prayer of gratitude who ever made this i’ll just thank u!!! for having this wonderful gratitude I love it so much tnx!!! ^_^
I’d been looking for a prayer of Thanksgiving and found them too rigidly traditional for my family. I changed my search to ‘gratitude prayer’ and found this. What I love most about it is that it was created for everyday use, not just Thanksgiving. Thanks very much!
Simply BEAUTIFUL! I feel like I can literally touch the presence of the almighty spirit simply by reading this gorgeous prayer. Thank you website person and spirit
I so appreciate this prayer! It expresses my sentiments exactly. I googled grattitude prayer and yours was at the top of the list! Now I am THANKFUL to have found your prayer! God Bless!!!!!
really nice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this prayer of gratitude and will start my day with it as well as pass it on to family and friends. Gratefully, Pat