The new thanksgiving

Our curate likes to play around with the liturgy. At least, I think it's he.

I think the latest adaptation of the Thanksgiving needs some work, though.

Here's an upgrade, based on "A General Thanksgiving" (2007 Version)

Father in heaven, we praise and thank you for your grace towards us and your working all things together for our good.

We thank you for the splendor of your creation, for the beauty of this world that shines through its fallen corruption, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of your love towards us.

We thank you for the blessing of family and friends, and for the loving care which surrounds us on every side and for the community of your saints.

We thank you for setting before us opportunities which ask our efforts, and for equpping us to grow in accomplishments which satisfy and delight us.

We thank you also that in those disappointments and failures that can beset us we learn to acknowledge our dependence on you alone.

Above all, we thank you for your Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ; for the truth of his Word and the example of his life; for his steadfast obedience, by which he overcame temptation; for his dying for our sin and for his rising to life in defeat of death, and in which we are raised to the life of your kingdom.

Grant us the gift of your Spirit, we pray, that we may know Christ and make him known; and through him, at all times and in all places, may give thanks to you in all things.