I just posted a reply to the blog of a friend of mine, and thought it would go well here, too. I was talking about Thanksgiving, and how people gloss over it as just a bigger-than-normal meal before we get to Christmas. The whole essence of the day seems to be lost by now. Everyone gets caught up in the fact that they get school or work of, and sometimes, not even then! I iss kindergarten. We dressed up as Pilgrims and Indians. The Pilgrim guys had the option of choosing which moustache you could get. Most guys went with straight ones, but I went for the handlebar! Ya gotta love the classic style...anyway...
My point is, Thanksgiving is becoming a thankless holiday. No one even says is anymore until they get to the dinner table. Why not remember it the whole day? Relax! When you relax, you see so much more you can say thanks for! We don't say it nearly often enough.
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Amen! Although it isn't just all about the food for me. I'm also looking forward to getting some sleep.....
But the thing is, we're celebrating taking land from a native people. Stealing land, killing of innocents, and virtually obliterating an entire culture just don't seem like reasons to be thankful. I think I prefer to just think of it as a bigger-than-average-meal.
Anon: You need to read "The Rest of the Story." Thanksgiving was first a celebration by the first settlers for their first crop and for making it through their first year in a new land. Many Indians they had befriended joined them. They together gave thanks to God for His blessings.
Do some TRUE research; I think you'll find the real story much different than you have been taught. (Stealing land, etc. was nowhere in this event.)
Happy Thanksgiving! Praise God from whom all blessings flow!
Historically, Native Americans were the true instigators of many of the conflicts, not the white settlers, who were for the most part poor farmers who just wanted to escape religious persecution or have a chance at a better life. Squanto himself, one of the Native Americans that we consider a hero today, caused enormous trouble when he tried to frighten other tribes into submission by telling them that he carried death in a box. The settlers didn't say this, Squanto did. When William Bradford found out, he fixed it all as best he could, and Sqaunto was disciplined by the church, to which he had already willingly joined, by the way. It's all in "On Plymouth Plantation." Good read, I suggest it highly.
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