Thankfulness...

 MY SIMPLE THANKS

Father, I thank you for the quietness of home

Sweet refuge from the storms of life.

I thank you for good and wholesome work,

For strength to perform what is mine to do.

I thank you for food, for taste and appetite;

For peaceful rest at the close of day

I thank you for your healing touch

To mind and soul and body, too.

I thank you for simple faith to believe

That you will be there; loving, caring for me.

I thank you for bearing all my cares

When we meet each day in the secret place of prayer.

~Ruth Carmichael Ellinger