Tag: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 2024: A thankful people rests

Now thank we all our God.

Pondering Thanksgiving this year, it’s interesting to review what I wrote last year (2023).  This passage jumped out at me: 

Our hearts are what matters.  The mainstream media present one picture of Americans as a people, but our hearts present another.  All is not lost.  Never forget that.  Never lose heart.  Millions of hearts beat in silence to the liberty and grace we believe in. 

It looked bleak to many a year ago, I know.  A year later, we’ve been given a reprieve from much that has troubled us.  Consider the continuation of last year’s thoughts:  Continue reading “Thanksgiving 2024: A thankful people rests”

Thanksgiving 2023: The Saga Continues

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving.

This year, I am simply re-upping what I wrote in 2021 about America’s greatest blessing.  It will never grow old.

No matter how far the overstructure of our organizations strays from it, it isn’t and doesn’t have to be far from our hearts.  Our hearts are what matter.  The mainstream media present one picture of Americans as a people, but our hearts present another.  All is not lost.  Never forget that.  Never lose heart.  Millions of hearts beat in silence to the liberty and grace we believe in. Continue reading “Thanksgiving 2023: The Saga Continues”

Thanksgiving 2022: The brief

Come, thankful people, and give thanks for life and hope.

The best meditation for Thanksgiving 2022 would be, I think, a very short one.

In fact, just four brief points.

One, politics aren’t expected to be widely popular at the Thanksgiving table this year.  This from The Hill, citing a Quinnipiac poll:  “A new Quinnipiac poll found that 65 percent of Americans hope they can avoid talking about politics with family and friends this Thanksgiving.”

The White House communication team has put out talking points about President Biden’s accomplishments, as the White House sees them. Continue reading “Thanksgiving 2022: The brief”

Thanksgiving 2021: America’s mightiest blessing

A blessing to cherish and tend – and a future that depends on it.

Most years now, one of the things I do for the major holidays is look at what I wrote the year before to see how it has held up.

Doing that in 2021 took me back to this post for 2020.  Surprisingly, perhaps, it wasn’t about the pandemic or the lockdowns, at least not in any direct or explicit way.  It was about something that was getting almost no attention at the time: the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock.

A Tyler O’Neil article at PJ Media was a pretext for writing about something I was already concerned with.  He highlighted an exceptionally important concept from the Mayflower Compact executed by the arriving settlers: the idea of a “Civil Body Politic.”  America’s connection with that concept is unique, historic, and essential, as in, going to our essence as a nation. Continue reading “Thanksgiving 2021: America’s mightiest blessing”

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