Litany for Thanksgiving

Please Respond: We thank you, O Lord.
 
This is a day to thank God for all his many blessings in our lives. With gratitude we now say:
 
For the love of God, for faith, family, and friends: R/
 
For joys, successes, achievements, and accomplishments: R/
 
For health, safety, work, and rest: R/
 
For struggles, sorrows, trials, and sufferings: R/
 
For our jobs, for those who support us, for our education, and for the chance to serve: R/
 
For our gifts, talents, and abilities, for honors, for strength and energy: R/
 
For our homes, for food, warmth, and shelter, for all the things that have made us happy: R/
 
For our hobbies and pets, for happy memories, for our favorite things, for leisure and relaxation: R/
 
For our nation, for freedom and peace, for teachers, leaders, and those who give us good example: R/
 
For the ability to say "I'm sorry," for the grace of repentance, for the forgiveness of others, for the generosity of others: R/
 
For good advice, for financial security, for the trust others put in us, for tenderness, understanding, and compassion: R/
 
For kindness, goodness, joy, and laughter, for the times we have helped others or made them happy: R/
 
For all the wonders of creation, for beauty, music, sports, and art, for new opportunities and second chances: R/
 
For failures and rejection, for all the ways we have grown up and become better people: R/
 
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,
is now, and will be for ever.
Amen