Happy Thanksgiving!
Every year, Mrs. get donkey! and I sit down to eat Thanksgiving dinner, and every year Mrs. get donkey! asks me to say grace. Of course, every year, I have been too tied up preparing the meal to think about what I should say, and I either fumble through something I memorized back in nursery school, or end up channeling the spirit of Gaylord “Greg” Focker (you know, “to love thee more dearly, to see thee more clearly…”).
This year, however, I have decided to give “grace” a bit more thought, especially since, being a Democrat, I am supposedly some kind of immoral, godless heathen who is out of touch with the so-called “moral values” of America.
Anyway, I put together the lines below and I post them here with the hope that everyone on the internets and beyond have a peaceful Thanksgiving and if you are not an American just a darn good day.
We are thankful that we are gathered around this table and that we have made it through another year in comfort and health.
We are thankful that even in the face of a world increasingly filled with intolerance, indifference, selfishness, and injustice, we still awake each morning with the hope that this day will be better than the day before.
While we ask for the good fortune to gather around this table again next year, we pray that the discriminated against, the suffering, the impoverished, and the wronged will soon wake up not merely to the hope for a better day, but to a world filled with acceptance, love, generosity, justice, and peace.
Amen
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Comment by jr | 11/27/2004
Amen.
Comment by Marc | 11/29/2004
Lovely! Amen as well!
Comment by Amy (aka your sister) | 12/5/2004