A Prayer of Thanks
Thank you, God, for the pleasures of summer,
the bright sunny days and perfect moonlit evenings,
the smells of mowed grass and air thick with the scent of the sea.
Thank you for days at the beach and evenings roasting marshmallows,
for vacations and festivals,picnics and cookouts,
baseball and concerts and swimsuits and popsicles.
Thank you for the fireworks and the walks in the sand,
for watermelon sweetness,
for summer’s pace and summer’s grace,
for all your beauty and power, faithfulness and fecundity displayed in summer,
Amen.
St. Joseph, our patron, Pray for us!
