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August Ludwig Storm (1862-1914) was 29 years old and working with the Salvation Army when he considered all the things for which we should be thankful. It’s easy to thank God for the beauty of the earth, for friends and for blessings in our lives, but Storm also remembered that we should also be thankful for the pain and sorrow in our lives. These are the things that make us strong in the Lord and will lead to true joy. He found 24 things for which to be thankful and wrote them down in the hymn, “Thanks to God.” Storm did not realize that only eight years later he would be stricken with a back problem that would leave him a cripple for life. Even then, he was still able to have a thankful spirit. His troubles made him lean on his God even more and gave him more power.

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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 dreary fall!
Thanks for tears by now forgotten, Thanks for peace with 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 heavenly peace with Thee!
Thanks for hope in the tomorrow, Thanks through all eternity!
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