Why we celebrate Thanksgiving Day?

Many Americans think of Thanksgiving as a long weekend to gather with family and friends and savor a big feast with turkey, pumpkin pie, sweet potatoes and cranberries and more.

After the first harvest in the New World in October 1621,  the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims. A celebration of autumn harvest. Both the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared the joy of blessings from above.   

The colonists hunted for turkeys in the 1621 and turkey is a uniquely American bird and by tradition it became a must choice as Thanksgiving meal for Americans. 

The Thanksgiving holiday was used to teach children about American freedom and how to be good citizens.

May we go back to basics and listen to Governor William Bradford of the 1620 Pilgrim Colony who proclaimed : 

  "All ye Pilgrims with your wives and little ones, do gather at the Meeting House, 

on the hill… there to listen to the pastor, and render Thanksgiving to 

the Almighty God for all His blessings."

And keep listening to President Abraham Lincoln who proclaimed, by Act of Congress, on October 3, 1863, an annual National Day of Thanksgiving "a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens."  In this Thanksgiving proclamation, our 16th President says that it is…

"…announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord… But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, by the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own… It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people…"

Thanksgiving is a day to celebrate best cooking from Mama or Grand-mama or best restaurant in town.  

THEREFORE - let us teach our children and young and renew in the homes, churches, schools, communities and the nation the true meaning of Thanksgiving Day. To acknowledge God Almighty as our provider and who multiplies the work of our hands and blesses us everyday. 

The future is coming - let us look back to the past foundations of this great nation and country.

You can spring!

Spring is just around the corner.     
We spring our clocks ahead one hour.
We start planning spring cleaning.
We long for warmer weather, specially you all in the East Coast and Midwest.

It always amazes me the cycles of season and time. A renewal opportunity.

Let us get in touch again with our goals and objectives as we live along into another season.

Failures can be blessings in disguise if we can just learn with them. Don't get discouraged and never give up. Set sight again in your goals and get going.

Spring must bring hope for new beginnings. As a seed planted in the ground and watered has potential to grow and birth over ground, so do our seeds of good will and decency planted in the souls and watered with love and faith bring forth better persons and better communities.

Let us start at home and in our churches and in our schools and in our neighborhoods building bridges among us.

Enough bad out there. Get out and make something good spring!

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Be well.
                  Ana