Thanks To God

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!  I hope each of you have a wonderful day – we truly have much for which to be thankful!

Here’s a song I’ve heard my mom sing often. It was written in the Swedish Salvation Army paper in 1891 by August L. Storm. In 1931, it was translated from Sweden to English by Carl E. Blackstrom. I hope you will take time to read the words – they are so fitting for today…and every day!

Thanks To God

Thanks to God for my Redeemer,
Thanks for all Thou dost provide!
Thanks for times now but a memory,
Thanks for Jesus by my side!
Thanks for pleasant, balmy springtime,
Thanks for dark and stormy fall!
Thanks for tears by now forgotten,
Thanks for peace within my soul!

Thanks for prayers that Thou hast answered,
Thanks for what Thou dost deny!
Thanks for storms that I have weathered,
Thanks for all Thou dost supply!
Thanks for pain, and thanks for pleasure,
Thanks for comfort in despair!
Thanks for grace that none can measure,
Thanks for love beyond compare!

Thanks for roses by the wayside,
Thanks for thorns their stems contain!
Thanks for home and thanks for fireside,
Thanks for hope, that sweet refrain!
Thanks for joy and thanks for sorrow,
Thanks for heav’nly peace with Thee!
Thanks for hope in the tomorrow,
Thanks through all eternity!