I found this prayer in a Boy Scouts all faith service bulletin while decluttering my Scout files. I tried to find the author online to give credit and saw it edited to be a Thanksgiving prayer and it had a bit more religion in it. Here is that version.
Could You Afford It?
Suppose God charged us for the rain
or put a price on a songbird's sweet strain
of music, or the dawn-mist on the ground.
How much would our autumn landscapes cost,
or a window etched with winter's frost,
and the rainbow's glory so quickly lost?
Suppose that people had to pay
to see the sunset's crimson play
and the magic stars on the Milky Way.
Suppose it was twenty dollars a night
to watch the pale moon's silvery light,
or watch a gull in graceful flight.
How much I wonder, would it be worth
to smell the good, brown, fragrant earth
in spring? Or to see the miracle of birth?
How much do you think people would pay
for a baby's laugh at the close of a long day?
Suppose God charged us for them I say!
Suppose we paid to look at the hills,
for the rippling mountain rills,
or the mating song of the Whippoorwills,
or the curving breakers of the sea,
for grace, and beauty, and majesty?
How much would you be willing to pay
to have God's love enter our lives?
Or to have someone to love us here?
And to think, all of these things
and many more
GOD GIVES TO EACH ONE OF US FREE!
May each one of us, on this Thanksgiving Day, give thanks to our God for all the things He allows us to see and hear that are free. Let us truly count our blessings!
May your Thanksgiving be filled with family, friends, good food and the spirit of thankfulness.