Thoughts To Contemplate On For Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving tomorrow here in the US there will not be a post. So, I’d like to leave with some thoughts about 
Thanksgiving to contemplate (even if you don’t live in the US).
Also, if you do live in the US I highly recommend a great show Thanksgiving night, it’s CNN’s Hero’s tribute. This is a fantastic show, full of inspiration and giving thanks. You can find more out here:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/index.html
OK…here are the thoughts:
We will speed the day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing… Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I’m free at last. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart. ~J.A. SheddThanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart. ~Arthur Guiterman, The First ThanksgivingThanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for – annually, not oftener – if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man’s side, consequently on the Lord’s side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ~Mark Twain
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. – W.J. Cameron
“Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.” – Edward Sandford Martin
“We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the burden of our wants, or the special subject of our petitions.” – Albert Barnes
Please add any thoughts of your own in the comments below.
