![]() We have come to this our feasting table with great joy and eagerness, for we are truly grateful to you, our God, for all that we have been given. Lord God, Our hearts are crowded with gratitude as we celebrate the feast of Thanksgiving. I pray that you remind me of just how blessed I am and that you never allow me to forget to show my gratitude in prayer and returned acts of kindness. I am extremely grateful for all of your blessings in my life, Lord. I hope that you give me the ability to give to them the same kindness they have provided to me. I hope that you provide me with the ability and sense to show them every day how much they matter. You speak to me in so many ways so that I always know you are here.Īnd Lord, I am so grateful for keeping those around me safe and loved. You help me make better choices and provide me with advisors to help me with life’s difficult decisions. You protect me from those things that seem to haunt others. They lift me up in ways that keep my eyes focused on you and make my spirit soar.Īlso, thank you, Lord, for keeping me safe. You have given me family and friends who bless me every day with kind words and actions. You have surrounded me with people who always look out for me. ![]() You have provided me with more than I could ever have imagined. Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you have bestowed on my life. Colleen Hanycz on 1/25/21 at the “Introduction to the Xavier Community” event upon her selection as the 35 th president of Xavier University A Simple Prayer of Gratitude And yet, we received everything that we needed. Lord, we have received nothing that we asked for or wanted. We asked for justice, and you called us to be just and to lead with integrity. We asked for love, and you gave us troubled people to help. We asked for patience, and you gave us situations where we were forced to wait. We asked for courage, and you gave us fears to overcome. We asked for prosperity, and you gave us purpose and brains to use. We asked for wisdom, and you gave us problems to solve. Loving Creator, We asked for strength, and you gave us difficulties to make us strong. Let us remember that we are in the holy presence of God. Send us feedback about these examples.Before I begin, I would like to offer a brief prayer of thanksgiving that I have relied upon heavily, especially throughout the past year as we have suffered as a community, and as a nation, and as a world, in so many ways: ![]() These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'byword.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Janell Ross, Time, 1 July 2023 See More 2023 Portrait of Corey Matthews Courtesy of Leroy Hamilton Of course California has long been more complicated than those who consider the Golden State a byword for progressive excesses and accommodations. 2023 The spyware, known as Pegasus, has since become a global byword for the chilling reach of state surveillance, a tool used by governments from Europe to the Middle East to hack into thousands of cellphones. Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 22 Sep. ![]() Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023 But donors should remember: The Corcoran is now a byword for breaking faith with original trust documents and now, breaking faith with agreements less than a decade old. 2023 Blackpool and other similar towns became bywords for deprivation and despair. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023 To critics, the studies became a byword for reckless experiments that risked kindling horrific outbreaks for only modest scientific knowledge. Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022 Like the southern kibbutzim and towns that have become bywords for atrocities - Reim, Beeri, Kfar Azza - most of the northern border towns rely on a small armed security force of reservists and civilians as a first line of defense. 2023 Because girl power always held out hope for a just world, a world where women and girls weren’t beholden to tired standards of femininity, and where feminism was more than a byword for lesbians. Recent Examples on the Web How did a genre rooted in astonishment, weirdness, and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane? - Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Nov.
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