Thursday, November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving Lessons

Neal Page: He says we're going the wrong way.
Del Griffith: Oh, he's drunk. How would he know where we're going?
--Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Once again on this day, remembering that early American settlements were failed experiments in socialism. The first Thanksgiving meals celebrated newfound abundance and the throwing off of policies that created squalor.

 
Our early ancestors learned it the hard way. Praying this Thanksgiving that we're not destined to endure a similar process before we figure it out.

1 comment:

dgeorge12358 said...

As President of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nation-wide thanksgiving celebration in America marking November 26, 1789, "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God".
~Godfrey Hodgson