We are grateful.

You have given us this day and have given us this way

to say Thank You.

We thank you for giving us

what we need to be grateful.

We offer back to you

all that we have

all that we are.

We know our thank you

is as fragile as we are

— it can be crushed

by the care of the moment

— it can disappear

in the heat of the day

— it can be blown away

by the winds of suffering.

And so we ask You

to  take our small thank you

into Your great act of Thanksgiving:

You, Lord of the loaves and fishes,

You who are from God

with God and for God,

You in whom it is all

YES

and Amen!

—Mary Jo Leddy