THANKSGIVING
Tomorrow, Americans will celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving. It is a holiday that began in this land; it was first celebrated by the Pilgrims after surviving a particularly difficult winter after their arrival to these shores.
May we today reflect with deep appreciation the blessings the GOD of everything that exists has placed upon this land. May our hearts and minds turn toward HIM with true devotion and thanksgiving.
Tomorrow, Americans will celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving. It is a holiday that began in this land; it was first celebrated by the Pilgrims after surviving a particularly difficult winter after their arrival to these shores.
May we today reflect with deep appreciation the blessings the GOD of everything that exists has placed upon this land. May our hearts and minds turn toward HIM with true devotion and thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Proclamation, October 28, 1961, by John F. Kennedy:
"The Pilgrims, after a year of hardship and peril, humbly and reverently set aside a special day upon which to give thanks to God ...
"I ask the head of each family to recount to his children the story of the first New England Thanksgiving, thus to impress upon future generations the heritage of this nation born in toil, in danger, in purpose, and in the conviction that right and justice and freedom can through man's efforts persevere and come to fruition only with the blessing of God."
"The Pilgrims, after a year of hardship and peril, humbly and reverently set aside a special day upon which to give thanks to God ...
"I ask the head of each family to recount to his children the story of the first New England Thanksgiving, thus to impress upon future generations the heritage of this nation born in toil, in danger, in purpose, and in the conviction that right and justice and freedom can through man's efforts persevere and come to fruition only with the blessing of God."
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