Each Thanksgiving, I used to teach my second grade students this poem (below).
Feel free to share it with your children as a way of celebrating a year-long Thanksgiving. Perhaps it’s timelier to teach this poem during the weeks leading up to Christmas. It may help to shift the focus from the materialism of the holiday to the reason for the season: Christ’s birth.
A Talk with Jesus
Thank you, Heavenly Father,
For blessings great and small
But more so for my Savior
The greatest of them all.
There are so many blessings
I often fail to see
Many times they’re in disguise
Yet mean so much to me.
Thank You, blessed Son of God,
For loving me so much.
It does not take Thanksgiving Day
For me to keep in touch.
But I admit it’s mighty nice
To have a special day
For all the faithful to unite
In gratitude to pray.
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