For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

The stanza is a compact prayer of gratitude, moving from the daily cycle (morning light, night’s shelter) to the basic conditions of flourishing (health, food) and finally to the relational and moral gifts that make life meaningful (love, friends). Its repeated “For…” structure reads like a litany, emphasizing that ordinary continuities—waking, resting, being sustained—are themselves worthy of thanks. The closing “Thy goodness” frames these benefits as grace rather than entitlement, encouraging humility and attentiveness to everyday abundance. Even without a specific doctrinal argument, the language situates gratitude as a spiritual discipline: a way of seeing the world as gift and of ordering one’s desires toward sufficiency and fellowship.