Thanks to God
Thanks to God for my Redeemer,
Thanks for all Thou dost provide!
Thanks for times now but a memory,
Thanks for Jesus by my side!
Thanks for pleasant, balmy springtime,
Thanks for dark and stormy fall!
Thanks for tears by now forgotten,
Thanks for peace within my soul!
Thanks for prayers that Thou hast answered,
Thanks for what Thou dost deny!
Thanks for storms that I have weathered,
Thanks for all Thou dost supply!
Thanks for pain, and thanks for pleasure,
Thanks for comfort in despair!
Thanks for grace that none can measure,
Thanks for love beyond compare!
Thanks for roses by the wayside,
Thanks for thorns their stems contain!
Thanks for home and thanks for fireside,
Thanks for hope, that sweet refrain!
Thanks for joy and thanks for sorrow,
Thanks for heav’nly peace with Thee!
Thanks for hope in the tomorrow,
Thanks through all eternity!
Words: August L. Storm, in the Swedish Salvation Army paper Strids-Ropet, 1891; translated from Swedish to English by Carl E. Backstrom, 1931.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
My favorite Thanksgiving hymn!
I love this hymn at Thanksgiving, but also year round!
This says it all…So good and true!
This hymn was sung in a memorial service I attended yesterday. It’s certainly is a hymn for all occasions.
Oh I’m going to share this one with the Swedish side of the family. It’s wonderful as is your magnificent photo of sunflowers against that dark sky.