Thanksgiving for Air.

If a group of people are asked what they would like to give thanks for, answers usually focus around people who are special to the person who answers, often ‘family’, or beauty or a special place that has felt awesome. Todays post takes a different line in giving thanksgiving for air. It is two very simple verses that are written to teach a little about air too. Did you know, for example, that air is kept on the planet by gravity? Maybe that will be learning point for your group. Similarly, the composition of air might surprise some. There is also the important point that we, and all other plants and creatures share the air - and it’s free to all.

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Thanksgiving for Air.

Why not make it an every-day prayer

to give thanks for the layer of air,

that’s by gravity held,

to the crust of the world

for all land-bound lifeforms to share?

 

Mainly nitrogen, that might surprise!

Far less O₂, lets mortals survive

with all of the other

flora and fauna.

So, breathe it! Give thanks! You're alive!

 

Composition of air. There are numerous websites that explain with different degrees of detail, what gases are in the air we breathe. BBC bitesize says:

'About 78% of the atmosphere is nitrogen gas, N2, which is unreactive and just sort of hangs around.

About 21% is oxygen, O₂, and that’s the stuff we need to breathe in.

That leaves approximately 1%, which is made up of atoms of unreactive argon, and molecules of carbon dioxide.’

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