"If the only prayer you say in your whole life is 'thank you,'
that would suffice."
Meister Eckhart, 1260-1328
13th-Century Dominican Mystic
Let us give thanks:
- For generous friends... with hearts as big as hubbards
- and smiles as bright as their blossoms
- For feisty friends as tart as apples,
- For continuous friends, who, like scallions and cucumbers,
- keep reminding us that we've had them,
- For crotchety friends, as sour as rhubarb and as indestructible,
- For handsome friends, who are as gorgeous as eggplants
- and as elegant as a row of corn,
- And the others, as plain as potatoes and so good for you,
- For funny friends, who are as silly as brussel sprouts
- and as amusing as Jerusalem artichokes,
- And serious friends, as complex as cauliflowers
- and as intricate as onions.
- For friends as unpretentious as cabbages,
- As subtle as summer squash,
- As persistent as parsley,
- As delightful as dill,
- As endless as zucchini,
- And who, like parsnips, can be counted on to see you through the winter,
- For old friends, nodding like sunflowers in the evening-time
- And young friends coming on as fast as radishes,
- For loving friends, who wind around us like tendrils and hold us,
- despite our blights, wilts, and witherings,
- And, finally, for those friends now gone,
- like gardens past that have been harvested,
- but who fed us in their times that we might have life thereafter.
- For all these, we give thanks. Amen.
Written by Max Coots
Minister Emeritus of the Canton, New York
Unitarian Universalist Church
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