Thanksgiving

O Christ, I thank You for my pastor. I thank You for the pastor who baptized me. I thank You for my confirmation pastor. I thank You for the seminaries. I thank You for all faithful pastors. I thank You for our dear Lutheran teachers. I thank You for our Concordias. I thank You for all the thousands of young women & men who are entering the sacred calling of teacher. I thank You for the thousands of selfless church workers who have chosen lives of modest means for the sake of serving Your sheep. *

* Rev. Matthew Harrison, The Lutheran Witness, March 2019