Gobble, Gobble!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

As we stuff ourselves with turkey, leisurely 

curl up to watch the Thanksgiving Day parade 

and football game -

Let us remember to give thanks to

our Lord God Almighty for these

 blessings He has so abundantly 

bestowed upon us!

...

"No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these 

great things. 

They are the gracious gifts 

of the Most High God, who,while 

dealing with us in anger for our sins, 

hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart

 and one voice, by the whole American people.

I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens 

in every part of the United States, 

and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November 

next as a day of thanksgiving 

and praise to our beneficent Father who 

dwelleth in the heavens. 

And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with 

humble penitence for our 

national perverseness and disobedience, 

commend to His tender care all those 

who have become widows, orphans, 

mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore if, as soon as may be consistent 

with the divine purpose, to the 

full enjoyment of peace, harmony, 

tranquillity, and union."  

--President Lincoln