Give Thanks With A Grateful Heart

Happy Thanksgiving

to all my Canadian Friends!

Now Thank We All our God

Now thank we all our God,

With heart and hands and voices,

Who wondrous things has done,

In whom this world rejoices;

Who from our mothers' arms

Has blessed us on our way

With countless gifts of love,

And still is ours today.

O may this bounteous God

Through all our life be near us,

With ever joyful hearts

And blessed peace to cheer us;

And keep us still in grace,

And guide us when perplexed;

And free us from all ills,

In this world and the next.

All praise and thanks to God

The Father now be given;

The Son, and him who reigns

With them in highest heaven;

The one eternal God,

Whom earth and heaven adore;

For thus it was, is now,

And shall be evermore.

Based on Ecclesiasticus 50:22-24 by Martin Rinkart (1586-1649)

Translated by Catherine Winkworth (1827-1878)