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THANKSGIVING THOUGHTS
Yearly, because the leaves flip and the air will get that crisp chunk, I’m pulled again to 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts the place a gaggle of English Pilgrims, non secular refugees who had crossed an ocean to breathe free, and their Wampanoag neighbors sat down collectively for 3 days of feasting. No treaties, no agendas, simply gratitude for a profitable harvest and the straightforward miracle that two very totally different peoples might share a meal in peace. Meals and friendship. That was the whole level. A minimum of, that’s what historical past tells us.
Quick-forward two centuries and Abraham Lincoln, in the midst of the bloodiest struggle this nation has ever recognized, paused on October 3, 1863 to proclaim a nationwide day of Thanksgiving.
His phrases nonetheless ring true: “The yr that’s drawing in the direction of its shut, has been crammed with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To those bounties, that are so consistently loved that we’re vulnerable to neglect the supply from which they arrive, others have been added, that are of so extraordinary a nature, that they can’t fail to penetrate and soften even the guts which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful windfall of Almighty God….
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