Posted on 11/27/2019 10:12:53 PM PST by Viking2002
Just wanted to start a thread in General/Chat to throw out a God Bless and the wish of a Happy Thanksgiving to all of us here at Free Republic. For those of you here who may not be celebrating - or cannot celebrate - this grand, blessed day with friends and family, remember that your virtual friends and family are right here and in our thoughts, prayers, and conversations. We'll all be online at some point, so go grab a Cracker Barrel Country Fried Turkey carryout, shout out your name, and we'll invite you into our lives and homes on this day.
As for the rest of you, show some table manners around your mother. She didn't raise a bunch of Huns. LOL J/K
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. We are truly blessed in this country. God is protecting our President Trump and we are blessed in return. I want to thank Jim and family for this wonderful website. Blessings to all.
Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless!!
Funk and Wagnalls? The same method done here.
Remember Rowan and Martin’s “Laugh In”? “Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls”.
BTW upon leaving home, my first set of dishes came from the local supermarket ‘special buys’.
When I was growing up on a farm in Iowa, the standard rule concerning edible livestock was that any critter that has a name is safe from becoming Sunday dinner.
My sister and I had a pet turkey named “Tom” (how original...hey, we were kids) that we raised from a ‘chick’ and he was imprinted with the image of us being his mom.
He followed us around constantly like a spare shadow and always came out to meet us, getting off the school bus each afternoon. He’d come out and fan out his feathers and strut around a bit. It was his main, possibly only, talent.
In early November, word leaked out to us that he was going to be the main course for Thanksgiving dinner. The old rule had been over-ridden and Tom was about to be “axed” literally.
Come the day before Thanksgiving, we all dreaded what was about to happen and nobody would volunteer to be his executioner. Just thinking about it spread through the family to where we were all nearly in tears.
Happy ending:
We couldn’t bear to kill Tom for dinner, so we ate the dog.
In retrospect, we should have named the dog...
Thank you...we are volunteering at a non profit feeding poor families and the homeless, then we’ll be feasting on a Thanksgiving dinner at home. Have a great day FReepers!!
Happy Thanksgiving
Have an awesome day, Freepers. Bless and be blessed. About those tiresome relatives, they won’t always be there and you will miss them someday. Yes, you will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXQxdj0N-es&list=RD316mipUnA-M&index=11
Happy Thanksgiving from da ‘HOOD.
Thank you for the Happy Thanksgiving wish....and I join you in wishing the same for all the FReeper family and their loved ones and friends.
I thank God for so many blessings in my life - especially for our beloved country and all its freedoms and opportunities. I especially thank God for President and Mrs. Trump and their family and for Vice President and Mrs. Pence.
How blessed we are as a nation that they are ours!
God bless all and have a wonderful day!
Happy Thanksgiving to all Freepers.
Happy Thanksgiving Viking. Good luck today, try to have fun.
Happy Thanksgiving!
George Washington
Thanksgiving Proclamation
[New York, 3 October 1789]
By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be—That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks—for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation—for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war—for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed—for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted—for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions—to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually—to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed—to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord—To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us—and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New-York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0091
For any who have enjoyed the old Thanksgiving hymns: (We sang these in church around this time of year when I was young.....)
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Come, ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home;
All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin.
God our Maker doth provide for our wants to be supplied;
Come to God’s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home.
All the world is God’s own field, fruit unto His praise to yield;
Wheat and tares together sown unto joy or sorrow grown.
First the blade and then the ear, then the full corn shall appear;
Lord of harvest, grant that we wholesome grain and pure may be.
For the Lord our God shall come, and shall take His harvest home;
From His field shall in that day all offenses purge away,
Giving angels charge at last in the fire the tares to cast;
But the fruitful ears to store in His garner evermore.
Even so, Lord, quickly come, bring Thy final harvest home;
Gather Thou Thy people in, free from sorrow, free from sin,
There, forever purified, in Thy garner to abide;
Come, with all Thine angels come, raise the glorious harvest home.
Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless to all! Very thankful for all the loved ones in my life and includes my many Freeper friends. Prayers for those who need them. Very grateful for the home we have at FreeRepublic. Thank you Jim and John and all who help you. We are surely living in amazing times.
One more traditional Thanksgiving hymn:
(Love the last phrase especially!)
We Gather Together
We Gather Together Hymn
We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;
He chastens and hastens His will to make known.
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.
Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own.
Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine;
So from the beginning the fight we were winning;
Thou, Lord, were at our side, all glory be Thine!
We all do extol Thee, Thou Leader triumphant,
And pray that Thou still our Defender will be.
Let Thy congregation escape tribulation;
Thy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!
Hymns of Thanksgiving on Piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoG1iW_lBJg
Interesting info - Hymn story of We Gather Together - written it is believed in 1587 - not related to America.
https://sermonwriter.com/hymn-stories/we-gather-together/
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