Thanksgiving

I want to wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving. Here is my Thanksgiving poem. Artwumyn~~~

Thank you God that the sun rises each day

Intent on it's journey across the skies

Oblivious to the grateful and the ungrateful

Shining down upon the earth without judgment

Through millions of miles of silent space

Thank you God that the moon orbits the earth

From time unremembered, it's faithfulness reported

Counted on, clocked, marveled about, and written down

Steadfast in the heavens like the stars and the planets

Never mocking the great cities that rise and fall

Thank you God that the earth has withstood

The eons of shifting continents, volcanic blasts

And asteroid impacts, ice ages, drought years,

Devastation of entire species, and devastation of

It's precious dwindling resources by one species

Thank you God that though we are like the storms of the earth

Violent in our changing natures, seemingly intent on destruction

Of all that is placed before us, unforgiving of the weak and helpless,

You have given us the example of the sun and the moon

The stars and the planets, the galaxies and universes.

In our short lives, the blink of an eye in timeless time

They appear unchanging, and somehow we are comforted.

Thank you that by your unending mercy, we have withstood

Since our creation from the atoms of the universe.

Thank you God that we can count on the sun to rise

Though we cannot count on peace to fill the earth

Thank you that we can count on the rhythms of the moon

Though we cannot count on lives without pain

Thank you that we can count on the heavens to stand

Because sometimes all the earth is quaking within us

And you are the only One able to calm the storm

Artwumyn

©2002