Gratitude

copyright Bob Hostetler

Thank you, Lord, for the many blessings wherewith you have blessed me...
my family, my children,
for their health and mine,
for my wife's beauty, intelligence, and charm,
for my senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.
For a sound mind,
for my natural and spiritual gifts,
for this home, these clothes,
for books,
for coffee,
water,
for a refrigerator and pantry filled with food,
for computers and phones,
for movies,
for pens and pencils,
for light,
for snow and winter,
for days off,
for friends and co-laborers in the Gospel.
For the ability to keep going when I'm tired,
for the Bible,
for the many Bibles I own (an embarrassment of riches),
for all your grace, forgiveness, and kindness toward me,
in Jesus' name, amen.