Thursday; November 24
Happy Thanksgiving! This is my favorite holiday of the year – and I recently learned that a good portion of America feels the same way. People like Thanksgiving. While a part of this might be the intersection of food, family and football; but I also believe that we like the idea of giving thanks. It makes us feel good to reflect on the good things that are going on in our lives and to realize there is Someone more powerful than us that makes it happen. We echo the proclamation that was issued in 1864, “Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart the last Thursday in November next as a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may then be, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the Universe.” While Abraham Lincoln may have placed a spotlight on a Thanksgiving holiday, King David captured the spirit years before him when he wrote, “Praise the L