A Post Independence Thanksgiving

Lord, I Thank You.

I thank you….

For public servants, teachers, police officers who serve faithfully;

faithful even when we fail to thank them...

For those who never stop doing good work

just because no one expresses gratitude......

We thank You today for the brave people of our land;

those who are more interested in being right than in being popular.

We are thankful for our freedom - 

For the freedom to choose our religion;

For the freedom to choose our profession, trade, career...

For the freedom to travel from state to state

Without passing armed border guards;

For the freedom to write letters to the Editor,

To place an advertisement in the papers,

Or rent a hall to speak.

We thank You, Lord,

For our Human Rights - 

For the right to vote and elect men and women who pass the law of this land;

For the right to vote out of office those who prove unworthy of our trust.

I am thankful today for all the medical miracles we take for granted;

Insulin, oxygen, aspirin, eye glasses [!!!] :)

Pace makers, hearing aids, and artificial limbs.

Thank you for the doctors who save lives of people they have never seen

And whose name means nothing to them...

Thank you for the men and women of the Armed Forces

Who risk their lives guarding the country borders

So that we people may sleep peacefully..

Lord, 

I am thankful today..

For the beauty of the world that surrounds me....

The thousand greens and the refreshing waters....

For the tall trees that clap their hands in praise

And bow their branches prayerfully in the wind..and in the sun...

Amen.