Let us thank our God Almighty

Let us thank our God almighty,

Let us give God all our praise.

Let us give our Christlike witness

Even to our final days. 

For the gifts of life and living,

For the love that holds us still,

We implore God's Holy Spirit

To maintain us in God's will.

 

Midst the noise of raging quarrel,

Midst the groan of endless war,

Midst the wrongs of those who claim God

But know not Christ anymore:

We are called to hold to Jesus

And maintain our gratitude,

While our life in Christlike service

Is by Spirit's work renewed.

 

We give thanks to God almighty,

We give thanks to Christ the Lord,

We give thanks to Holy Spirit,

All revealed in sacred word.

All our gratitude deserving

While the endless ages run,

Triune God we praise and worship

'Til our time on earth is done.

 

 

TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, November 2023.

MUSIC: Tune JEFFERSON, Alexander Johnson's Tennessee Harmony, 1818.

 

 

Written down on Thanksgiving Day 2023, and I suppose it has something of thanksgiving (or gratitude if you prefer) about it.