Here’s
a call to worship for Thanksgiving written by David Inglis. It uses the sung refrain from the hymn, For the Beauty of the Earth as a
congregational response.
Call to Worship for Thanksgiving:
Grateful Praise
God
created the heavens,
star-spattered
with beauty,
and
the earth, teeming with life.
And
God set us on the Earth,
alive
and wide-eyed,
able
to see and hear,
feel
and taste life's beauty,
able
to dream and plan,
create
and build out of the richness of the earth.
Lord of all to thee
we raise
this our hymn of
grateful praise!
God
gave us families to love us,
teachers
to teach us,
elders
to guide us,
and
leaders to inspire us.
God
gave us His Son
to
save us from the path of destruction and sin,
and
to be a strengthening presence
in
our trials and temptations.
Lord of all to thee
we raise
this our hymn of
grateful praise!
Every
good thing that fills our souls with gladness
and
our lives with light
is
a gift from God.
We
have been entrusted with unfathomable riches.
For
this, let us come before God
in
thanksgiving and grateful praise.
Lord of all to thee
we raise
this our hymn of grateful
praise!
~
written by David Inglis, Senior Pastor at the Henrietta United Church of Christ in Henrietta, New York. http://www.henriettaucc.org/PastorsPage/CallsToWorship.shtml
