2022 American Thanksgiving Prayer
Beloved, may we give thanks in every day, and be reasons for others to give thanks. May we know collective secular holidays for what they are, and embrace needed rest, needed connections, needed generous joy, and needed space from demanding expectations. May we learn how to give each other these gifts of graciousness and spaciousness every day. Beloved, may we give thanks in every day, and be reasons for others to give thanks. May we know collective secular holidays for what they have been, and who’s missing from the stories told about them, who’s participating and who isn’t participating in the storytelling, who’s harmed and who’s helped by these stories and why. May we learn to attend to what is true and real with humility and with acceptance that the actors of history are no less imperfect and no less capable of harm than people of the now. Beloved, may we still give thanks in every day, and be reasons for others to give thanks. May we learn to grant each other spaciousness for rest and for release from harsh expectations. And may we not need to erase others’ experiences or what really happened in history to set aside time to love boldly, to live generously, to be thankful. Amen.
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