Whom do we give thanks?
What are we acknowledging?
Why be thankful if nothing is above us?
Where did we learn to feel thankfulness?
How do we have such experience?
When will we discover the source?

Give thanks to God

Who can say another human is greater?
For what one knows and teaches
Is now known to you to teach
And what one gives to help you
Is now yours to pass to another

Even a parent of moral compass
May like one child above another
Yet their love is equal for both
As their equality is true for both
Because both are theirs to guide in youth

Even a judge of lawful duty
May like one prisoner above another
Yet his judgement is sound for both
As their equality is true for both
Because both are under the same law

Those in authority may give or take
Those of education may give or take
Those of wealth may give or take
And those of poverty may give or take
But One gave life, as we labor to birth it

Give thanks to God

Thankfulness is our hearts recognition
Of that which we call good
Likewise mind and body do follow suit
Thankfulness flows from a personal place
Designed for us to remember the truth

Truly when a brother helps, we are thankful
And when we help, our brother is thankful
Those who are not
Are not acting as brother
Nor is love found in their heart, but fear

They to us and us to them
But who provided in the beginning?
How am I to give
And how are you to give
Without us both first being given to?

Us to them and they to us
But who received in the beginning?
For there to be a provider
One must also be there to receive
Of that which existed before him.

Give thanks to God

What relief we feel in thankfulness
What joy it is to be helped
In irony of flesh, for it is of spirit
So too is it a joy to give help
As we feel thankful that we could help.

So let us seek then the Origin of it all
That we may make our thankfulness pure
That we may have greater joy
In that revelation of the God of Life
That we may share in the power of it.

Let us feel the goodness of it
And remember that all goodness is God
Let us embrace the love we feel
When joined to another in giving
Knowing that God is love.

Let us remember that what we have
God gave us, not man, not law
Let us remember that what we give
God gave us, not effort, not title.
Before our time it already existed.

Let us see that in this we all share
Tho the greedy wish to be praised
And the ignorant wish to claim
Indeed the proud believe they made
And not one is grateful because of it.

But we who feel true thankfulness
Know there is something greater who gave
We are humbled to receive
And we too are humbled to give
For it was God who worked through both

Give thanks to God for He is good
He who alone, doeth great works.
His kindness shall always endure
His mercy never fails.
What mercy of existence, is thanksgiving!

Ryan o0o