Simple Praise

Our church choir sang a song for our community Thanksgiving service last Sunday titled  Simple Praise.

As I sit at my computer ...

As I've ridden the 4-wheeler to help move cattle ...

As I've baked and chopped and stirred ...

The words and music of this song have drifted through my mind, over and over again.

And when I've been at choir, pictures have floated into my mind as we've sung the words.

It's about thanks giving. Not necessarily Thanksgiving, though it's certainly the perfect time to recognize God's gifts and blessings all around us. But our thanks giving should be every day, not just on the fourth Thursday in November each year.

I found one choir had uploaded Simple Praise by Craig Courtney and Pamela Martin to youtube. If you'd like, listen to the song (the link is at the bottom of this post) and look at the illustrations that have been floating through my mind and are now assembled together, kind of like that other favorite song of the season, We Gather Together.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from The County Line.

 For a canvas of colors

For a concert of sound

For the unfolding seasons

The earth spinning round

 For the birth of each sunrise

For the sky set ablaze

For these simple gifts

We give simple praise

 Simple praise for the Giver

And thanks to the One

Who has given us breath

And given His Son

 

To the Giver of blessings

For all of our days

  For these simple gifts

 
We give simple praise

For the love of a mother

For the touch of a hand

For the deeper emotions

We can't understand

For the lessons we learn

From the trials we face

For these simple gifts

We give simple praise

The heart of the Giver

 The hand of the One

From whom every blessing

Of living has come

 For measureless mercy and limitless grace

For these simple gifts

We give simple praise.

This was updated from a 2012 post.