Prayer of Thanks
Prayer of Thanks
By Eva Willes Wangsgaard
I’ve thanked thee other years, dear Lord,
For flowers and fruit,
For beauty that the years afford
From seed and root.
This year I thank thee for the peace
That faith can hold,
For love that grew a sheltering fleece
Against all cold,
And for the wound my heart received.
I murmured when
It came, but learned that while I grieved
I grew. Amen.
(1945)