1983

November 1983

  • Contents

  • Contents

  • Two Little Squirrels

    Mahala Palmer Hunt

  • The Day the Indians Came to Dinner

    Hazel W. Tibbit

  • Friend to Friend

    Janet Peterson and David B. Haight

  • My Very Own Poems

    Allison Wilson

  • Sharing Time: Gratitude for the Scriptures

    Pat Graham

  • A Night without Darkness (Part 1)

    Sherrie Johnson

  • My Blessings

    Janice Kapp Perry

  • Kitchen Krafts: Get Popping!

    Julie Wardell

  • Grandpa John

    Lori Stevens

  • Books! Books! Books!

  • Untitled

    Emily Dickinson

  • Thanksgiving Turkey

  • Flannel Board Sunday Box

  • The First Thanksgiving Letters

    Christena Nelson

  • The Cherry Tree

    Gail Emily Fey

  • A Thanksgiving Prayer

    June Swanson

  • Things More Precious

    Judy C. Olsen

  • Funstuf

    • Seeing Double

      Ruth Schiefen

    • November Puzzle

      Jan Tincher

    • Track Down the Lion

      Frances Carfi Matranga

    • Bookworm

      Jane K. Priewe

    • Scrambled Mother Goose Rhymes

      June Swanson

    • Journals and Histories

      Janet Peterson

    • Double Duty

      Ruth Schiefen

  • Wishbones for Winnie

    Penelope B. Judd

  • First Things First

    Patricia S. Laye

  • The Liahona

A Thanksgiving Prayer
November 1983


“A Thanksgiving Prayer,” Friend, Nov. 1983, 33

A Thanksgiving Prayer

By June Swanson

There is so much to say today;

I don’t know where to start.

How can I begin to tell

The thanks that fill my heart?

Should I begin with family,

Or love or joy or sunlight,

Or peace or health or happiness,

Or home or birds or stars at night?

For all these things—and many more—

I thank Thee, Father dear.

But most of all I thank Thee

For always being near.

Illustrated by Shauna Mooney