Friday, November 19, 2010

Thanksgiving... Nicknamed "Turkey Day"

Thanksgiving is a holiday much like Christmas, where most of the value and most of the importance has been lost!  I am as guilty as the next for teasing about "turkey day" rather than trying to find and recognize the importance of our beginnings as a nation.  One Nation Under God!  Our need to be Thankful!

In reconsidering the plight of the Pilgrims... we could all take a little trip down memory lane and see what events led up to the event.  The early pilgrims had bravely crossed the Atlantic and landed near Plymouth Rock in the late fall cold.  Over 40 of the original Pilgrims lost their lives due to the elements and not being prepared.  Over the next year they learned how to survive from their new found friends. "the Indians" or Natvive Americans   It is said that as they survived they huddled together in the extreme cold and sang hymns and Psalms for comfort.  The festive occasion happened the next fall after a bountiful crop of pumpkins, corn, and beans even after a horrible drought.  They are supposed to have invited their "Indian Friends" and had a joint communal feast of about 90 people to celebrate.

At my household, we will have the thanksgiving "feast" as it is called, although it will be far less than a feast!  But it will be no less of a celebration of Thanksgiving.  While talking to friends and associates today, many things have come up that we should be most grateful for!  Well being!  Comfort!  Love!  The Grace of God!  Friends that have stood by you even in the worst of times!  Sharings in your family that make you a "Family."  Evolving from not such good times to not as bad times. 

As the Pilgrims, we all have a pilgrimage that takes us from better times to times that are not so good, and occasionally to good times... but alas, the cycle continues.  It does not matter so much where we "are" in our lives right now as much as where we have been and where we are going.  We can be thankful for all things... even if it is a bad time in life, thankful that we don't have to dwell there but are in a journey moving past that bad time. 

This is the only way that we can hope and exist.  If we focus on what is so bad in life, we never realize the blessings and great things in life that are ours for the taking.  It is never an easy task.  But to be able to survive the coldest of the winter, to go without the nourishment we want, to make life more bearable for each others, and to survive the extreme drought of life, we can be thankful that our journey is continuing... and this too can and will pass! 

I feel a need every year to find a way to help someone that has a worse plight than myself.  In the good times,it was an easy thing to do.  In the bad times, it is not so easy.  But our foundation and our lives are built not on being so needy and self centered, but in finding ways to help others who may have a worse situation than we.  And then thanking God first of all for our bounty!  Then thanking all the others that have touched our lives and made us what we are. 

So, my friends and family, Thank you one and all!  You have made my life so much better than it would have been without you!  Yes, even you (this is supposed to be a comedic attempt to thank those friends and clients that were not optimal friends...LOL) Mr &/or Ms Pessimism.  I love you all, and I hope to continue to have you as friends in my life forever!  And thank you my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  Without Him, I have nothing at all.

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Pitt

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