In all the pleasure, care, and stress
Of daily human living,
Preserve us from forgetfulness,
Blindness to heaven’s faithfulness,
And failure in thanksgiving;
Deliver us from every mood
That savors of ingratitude.
It is so easy to forget
The tempests that have swept us,
The barriers that we have met,
How much we are in heaven’s debt,
The goodness that has kept us.
However far we be from good,
Preserve us from ingratitude.