My Hymn of Grateful Praise

Welcome to November! A new month. A clean page on the calendar. (Although, if your calendar looks anything like mine, it's already pretty full!)

Welcome to the season of thanksgiving.

Today I'm singing a favorite old hymn. It's my hymn of grateful praise. I'm focusing my thoughts this morning on "the beauty of the earth".

For the beauty of the earth,
For the glory of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies,
Lord of all, to thee we raise
This our grateful hymn of praise.

(words - Folliott S. Pierpont; music - Conrad Kocher)

 

I'm thankful today for the beauty of the world around me. Thankful that I get to live in a place that looks like this:
 



 

And sometimes looks like this:

 

But sometimes looks like this:

 

Or this:

 

And sometimes this:

 

 

A world that is always, in all seasons, beautiful. How blessed I am!
 

"I will give thanks to you, O LORD, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations, for your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth! (Psalm 108:3-5 ESV)