Thankful Advent

a prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson

Lord, behold our family here assembled.
We thank you for this place in which we dwell,
for the love that unites us,

 for the peace accorded to us this day,

for the hope with which we expect the morrow;
for the health, the work, the food 

and the bright skies
that make our lives delightful;
for our friends in all parts of the earth.
Amen.