Here’s a thanksgiving prayer from the United Church of Christ website.
Prayer
of Thanks for Abundance
God
of Grace,
you
have gifted us with a world of abundance;
a
land of plenty;
a
country where all can have enough.
We
come before you this day
to
thank you for this prosperity
and
to repent from our apparent inability to share this wealth.
God,
we declare our own complicity
in
systems that sustain some of us,
while
forsaking many others.
And
we come before you to seek your forgiveness,
even
as we pray for your justice.
Righteous
God, you hear the cry of the poor.
You
listen to those who do without,
while
so many spend recklessly
and
our leaders invest the wealth of the nation
in
instruments of destruction.
Be
with us this day Lord.
Hear
our prayers.
Touch
our hearts that we may be faithful witnesses
and
effective voices for justice.
God
of mercy, hear our prayer. Amen.
~ written by Mari Castellanos, and posted on the United Church of Christ website. http://www.ucc.org/justice_worker-justice_labor-sunday_worship-resources#liturgy
