OzThoughts – Thursday 5th November 2009

OzThoughts – Thursday 5th November 2009

Can we say “thank you” too much? I don’t think so. To show appreciation is or should be a natural reaction when someone does something for us.

A volunteer, who is engaged to assist people arriving at the hospital, was telling me he asked a lady who seemed to be having difficulty walking with a walking frame if he could help in any way. She snapped back “I am okay. I don’t need help”. He said he just did not know what to say next, so quietly went away. I suggested tto him that courtesy must not have been in his dictionary.

Thanksgiving has become a National Holiday. In fact two National Holidays. In Canada Thanksgiving is in October and in November in The United States. I was thinking last weekend, when some people here in Australia were constantly reminding us it was Halloween, it would be far better to borrow a time of Thanksgiving than the time of witches, ghosts and ghouls.

Flora Larsson has translated August Ludvig Storm’s Swedish Hymn of Thanksgiving. Storm was a Salvation Army Officer in Sweden and knew person difficulties becoming disabled in the later years of his service.

[Listen: http://www.salvoaudio.com/audio/songs/songs_230.mp3 ]

Thank you, Lord, for all your goodness:
Through the years of yesterday;
Thank you, too, for present mercies
And your blessing on my way.
Thank you for each revelation,
And for what you choose to hide;
Thank you, Lord, for grace sustaining
As I in your love abide.

Thank you, Lord, for sunlit pathways,
Thank you, too, for byways rough;
Thank you for the fruitful summers
Also for the winters tough.
Thank you, Lord, for fragrant flowers
Growing right amid the weeds;
Thank you for the peace you give me
Even when my spirit bleeds.

Chorus
Thank you, Lord, for wayside roses,
Even for the thorns beside;
Thank you for the prayers you granted
And for those that you denied;
Thank you, Lord, for precious comfort
In my hours of grief and pain;
Thank you for your precious promise
Life eternal I shall gain.
August Ludvig Storm (1862-1914), trs Flora Larsson
The Salvation Army Song Book Song Number: 552

Prayer;

Father God, We pause in your presence in an attitude of gratitude. We want to acknowledge you and say Thank you. Father, help us to says thanks for everything.
Amen.

Ephesians 3:14-21 (The Message)
14-19My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.
20-21God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

Glory to God in the church!
Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus!
Glory down all the generations!
Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!
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