Naturalistic Paganism
Ah, those warm, comforting memories of Thanksgivings spent with family. … Or, are they sometimes not so blissful? Like when the family meal starts with a request that we all pray about Jesus’ blood? If that sounds familiar, you may enjoy this short video by John Cleland Host. Have a great Thanksgiving!
And here’s a simple grace that John Halstead says with his family:
We thank the earth in which the seed did grow.
We thank the hands that the seed did sow.
We thank the sky which gave us rain.
We thank the sun whose rays give us gain.
We thank the hands that this meal did prepare.
To live in honor of these gifts is our prayer.
Happy Thanksgiving to all our HumanisticPaganism.com friends!
Naturalistic Paganism 
Reblogged this on Catskill bob's Blogosphere and commented:
Something about the day to give thanks
A Prayer for Thanksgiving Day
Lord, let me more than a consumer be
on this commercial-ridden holiday.
Let your Light shine within me
and satisfy me and satiate me,
that there be no lingering hunger
even after I have eaten my fill.
Let my football-addled t.v. go dim
that I do not waste this day
or any other day
watching silly sports or any silly thing
on these shallow, soulless screens.
Lord, let your Light shine through this day
and through the darkness of Black Friday
and through the darkening days till Christmas
and beyond…
that I may crave no more than I already own,
even if all I own is this windy prayer
to your unsubstantiated presence,
of which I am substantially thankful.
“We wish to thank evolution” comic by Zach Weinersmith, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, November 8, 2011. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2425