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I NEVER THOUGHT TO OFFER THANKS

Elizabeth Smith

 

I’ve always said my daily prayers

For I thought that I should pray.

And so learned the routine ones

And said them everyday.

 

They were the ones that someone else

Had written long ago

So they were never quite my own

But how much I to know?

 

Just what to say to God that would

Explain to Him my needs

When I have everything that I wanted?

I never thought of it was greed.

 

To ask for more and more of life;

For fortune and great success

With all about me friends to make

And share my happiness.

 

And in so far the wealth of life

The kind not stored in banks

For just the breath I drew each day,

I never thought to offer thanks.

 

But now it seems I grow wiser

With the coming of each day

And I am substituting “Thanks” with “Please”

When its time for me to pray.