Irish Thanksgiving Prayer

Thanks be to God for the light and the darkness;

Thanks be to God for the hail and the snow;

Thanks be to God for shower and for sunshine;

Thanks be to God for all things that grow.

Thanks be to God for lightning and tempest;

Thanks be to God for weal and for woe;

Thanks be to God for his own great goodness;

Thanks be to God that what is, is so.

Thanks be to God when the harvest is plenty;

Thanks be to God when the barn is low;

Thanks be to God when our pockets are empty;

Thanks be to God when again they overflow.