Today I offer you my gratitude, my praise and thanks, for just some of the innumerable gifts I so often take for granted: the blessings (large and small) that fill my day but often escape my notice and attention…
I have so many things in my life
which I think of as basic (if I think on them at all),
things that others ’round the world
would count as luxuries,
far beyond their reach…
So I offer you my thanks: for the bed in which I woke, the clean sheets and the comfortable pillows on which I slept in the safety of my bedroom in a home with running water, hot and cold, in a house with heat and AC, electricity, power and light 24/7/365…
And I offer you thanks, Lord, for my morning medications and for toothpaste and a toothbrush (manual and electric), for crisp, minty mouthwash and for soap, shaving creme and razors (one for my face and one for my head) and for deodorant, after shave and Q-Tips…
And I offer you thanks, Lord,
for my hot shower
with its pulsing needle spray
waking me and cleansing me as each new day begins,
opening my eyes, my pores, my soul, my whole body
to you and to the gift of the new day just ahead…
And I offer you thanks, Lord,
for my closets and my bureau drawers
filled with clothes from which to choose
by color and design
just how each day I’ll dress myself
for work or play,
and closets storing clothes for other seasons,
for warmer and colder times,
so I’ll be ready for the weather
and dressed for every clime…
And I offer you thanks, Lord, for my shoes:
black and brown, casual and dress,
and boots, sandals, sneakers, slippers, thongs
– and socks for every kind of shoe
in white, brown, blue and black…
I offer you thanks, Lord, for my kitchen filled with food – and plenty of it – and for my oven, stove and microwave
for cooking meals that keep me healthy
– and well fed…
And I offer you thanks, Lord,
for my refrigerator, filled with food to keep
until it’s time to cook or bake
or just enjoy its cool and frosty contents…
As I count them, Lord,
these are about 50 reasons to be grateful
for things you give me every day
from the time I wake up
until I fall asleep at night…
50 things I seldom think of, Lord, gifts I take for granted, gifts that half the world would treasure if they shared my daily bounty…
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