Thursday, November 22, 2012

Thanksgiving Day 2012



Psalm 100:3-5Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

I’d simple like to wish you and yours a blessed Thanksgiving Day. May the providence of Almighty God be the focus of our hearts today and everyday. God bless you.

Remember the original intent of this Holy Day. Here is part of Lincoln’s Proclaimation.
“October 3, 1863 By the President of the United States
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.
No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Stated States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.
Abraham Lincoln”



Thanks be to God!
Brian

4 comments:

Alice said...

Have a wonderful day Brian! Happy Thanksgiving.

Brian Ray Todd said...

Thank you and have a truly blessed day also Ma. We have so much to be thankful for. You are one of them.

child of God said...

Hi Brian,
Have a wonderful, blessed Thanksgiving weekend with your family.

I hope and pray you are able spend the time with all of your children.

Thanks for this beautiful George Washington music video, very peaceful.

Blessings,
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Brian Ray Todd said...

Thank you Child of God, and have a wonderful weekend also. I know that the Canadian Thanksgiving Day is the second Monday in October, but its okay if you celebrate twice. :) Thank you for writing.