Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Thursday, November 27, 2008 9:09:40 AM
Other than Independence Day, Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday. Many of the Jewish holidays' celebrations are at the dinner table. Thanksgiving is the American Seder. It is a holiday to express gratitude, gratitude to God for the blessings given. Dennis Prager says that gratitude is a primary ingredient for happiness and without happiness is impossible. We have much to be grateful for as a people. This is still the greatest nation on earth, the greatest in the history of mankind. We are blessed to live here. We all should be grateful to the soldiers who are away from their families to keep us a free nation. They fight so we don't have to. We should be also grateful to the soldier's families who sacrifice their loved ones at this time and throughout the year. There have been many proclamations over the years but I am partial to Abraham Lincoln's
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/thanks.htm .
Myself I am grateful for my salvation and faith, my wife and children, my mom and dad, brothers and sisters, their spouses and my nephews. I am grateful for my grandmother. I am grateful for my wife's family. I am grateful for very good friends some old (I mean I have known a long time) and some recent. I am grateful for my job and our company which has weathered tough times in the past and God willing will weather these as well. I am grateful for life and health.
Happy Thanksgiving and may God bless you and keep you.