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Almighty God, we pray Thee this day for the gift of a tranquil spirit, a spirit of contentment with our daily portion from Thine hand. When Thou openest Thine hand and satisfiest every living thing with favor, ours is the glory of praising Thy name. As Thou sendest forth Thy sun to shed its light on Thy handiwork, so causest Thou the blessings of the field and the orchard to yield daily sustenance to all Thy children. | |
If our spirit, therefore, lacks tranquility and our soul is in want of contentment, it is because we fail to thank Thee, O Lord, for Thy goodness to us, and Thy fatherly care of us, day by day, because we spend our peace of the day in worry of the morrow. Oh, that we would sense in our life’s experience the steadiness and the certainty of Thy providence! Oh, that we were not ever building sky-high defenses against the rover that might come, and thus end our years in the fear of a shadow. | |
Teach us, O Lord, to thank Thee day by day, and thus continually bless Thy name for ever and ever. |
“Teach Us to Be Thankful” by Rabbi Louis M. Epstein was first published in Rabbi Morrison David Bial’s anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 36, from where this prayer was transcribed.
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