It has been a year since the nation gathered with family to be thankful for its blessings, for we truly are blessed.
We pray that our bretheren, here and around the world, will awaken to how truly fortunate we are, and to stop wasting those blessings on the hurly burly pursuit of mere power, and idle and empty luxury. We pray that we will learn to heal the anger and rage that infects us as we live within our gilded cages. We pray that we will remember the courage to end this terrible war, which is not merely a war between peoples, but a war against truth.
We pray for all those who do not share in these blessings fully. For the family that waits for a loved one to come home - from war, or work, or wanderings of the spirit, and we are with them, as they steal glances to an empty chair, which they fear may remain empty yet longer. We pray for the families who have lost their homes, loved ones and livelihoods in disaster, whether great and visible, or unknown and unheralded.
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