Text A diligent and grateful heartPrompts me to sing Thy praise.Thy love and mercies from the startHave blessed me all my days. I thank Thee for the means to serveWith talents and with tithes,For sharing brings the utmost joyWhen lifting other lives. My thanks I give you for stewardshipTo minister through deeds,To serve and share…
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Text 1God, whose giving knows no ending,From Your rich and endless store:Nature’s wonder, Jesus’ wisdom,Costly cross, grave’s shattered door.Gifted by You, we turn to You,Off’ring up ourselves in praise:Thankful song shall rise forever,Gracious donor of our days. 2Skills and time are ours for pressingToward the goals of Christ, Your Son:All at peace in health and…
Text 1Father, we thank You for the light that shines all the day;For the bright sky You have given most like Your heaven;Father, we thank You. 2Father, we thank You for the lamps that lighten the way;For human skill’s exploration of Your creation;Father, we thank You. 3Father, we thank You for the friends who brighten…
Text 1For the beauty of the earth,for the glory of the skies,for the love which from our birthover and around us lies;Lord of all, to Thee we raisethis our grateful song of praise. 2For the joy of human love,brother, sister, parent, child,friends on earth and friends above,Pleasures pure and undefiled,Lord of all, to Thee we…
Text 1For sunrise hope and sunset calm, and all that lies between,For all the sweetness and the balm that is and that has been,For comradeship for peace in strife, and light on darkened days;For work to do and strength for life we sing our hymn of praise. 2But O, we press far, far above these…
Text 1Praise and thanksgiving let everyone bringUnto our Father for every good thing.All together joyfully sing! Hymn Info Biblical Reference(a) Ps 147:7 AuthorEdith Lovell Thomas Year Published1950 Performance SuggestionsAccompaniment may repeat any 4-bar phrase for duration of the canon. CopyrightUsed by permission of Friendship Press. Hymn TuneLOBET UND PREISET Metrical Number10.10.8. ComposerAccomp. by Melvin West,…
Text 1Come, sing a song of harvest, Of thanks for daily food!To offer God the first-fruits is old as gratitude. 2Long, long ago, the reapers, before they kept the feast,Put first-fruits in a basket, and took it to the priest. 3Shall we, sometimes forgetful oh where creation starts,With science in our pockets lose wonder from…
Text 1We plow the fields, and scatter the good seed on the land,But it is fed and watered by God’s almighty hand.He sends the snow in winter, the warmth to swell the grain,The breezes and the sunshine, and soft refreshing rain. RefrainAll good gifts around usAre sent from heaven above;Then thank the Lord, O thank…
Text 1Now thank we all our Godwith heart and hands and voices,who wondrous things hath done,in whom His world rejoices;Who, from our mothers’ armshath blessed us on our waywith countless gifts of love,and still is ours today. 2O may this bounteous Godthrough all our life be near us,with ever joyful heartsand blessed peace to cheer…
Text 1For the fruits of His creation, thanks be to God;For the gifts to every nation, thanks be to God;For the plowing, sowing, reaping,Silent growth while men are sleeping,Future needs in earth’s safe keeping, thanks be to God! 2In the just reward of labor, God’s will is done;In the hop we give our neighbor, God’s…