Tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the United States. And though it has been adopted by a few other countries, the American observation of the holiday remains a unique one. Thanksgiving has been part of America’s identity since the early seventeenth century, most notably by the Pilgrims of the Plymouth colony in 1621. The notion of the American people giving thanks to God for the blessings He had bestowed was further ingrained by the Continental Congress in 1777.
And then in 1789 President George Washington famously proclaimed a day of national thanksgiving. That pretty much sealed the deal. Thanksgiving would forever be a sacred time for the American people.
My experiences with Thanksgiving have been varied. Some of them have been good. Others, not so much. I don’t want to dwell on the latter though. I like to believe that recent years, months actually, have brought deliverance from much of that ...
