Giving thanks

         
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Now thank we all our God

with heart and hands and voices,

Who wondrous things hath done

In whom this world rejoices;

Who from our mothers' arms

Hath blessed us on our way

With countless gifts of love,

And still is ours today.

O may this bounteous God

through all our life be near us, 

With ever joyful hearts 

And blessed peace to cheer us,

And keep us still in grace,

And guide us when perplexed,

And free us from all ills

In this world and the next. 

All praise and thanks to God 
the Father now be given; 

The Son and Him who reigns 

With them in highest heaven.

The One eternal God

Whom earth and heaven adore

For thus it was, is now,

And shall be evermore.

(text by Martin Rinkhart)