Happy Thankgsgiving!

The following is an excerpt from Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation declaring Thanksgiving an official national holiday in 1863.  So often we get so wrapped up in all the preparations and football games, we forget the real meaning of the day.  Take some time this Thanksgiving to reflect on all your blessings!

“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.”