Posted on 11/27/2024 9:21:49 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A strong majority of Americans still pray and express gratitude during Thanksgiving dinner, a Pew Research Center poll found.
While some polling within the past decade has shown a decline in adherence to religion, surveys have also shown that Americans are a people of faith, with strongly held beliefs in heaven, angels, the power of prayer, and the supremacy of a higher guiding force. That belief in prayer still extends to Thanksgiving, a holiday steeped in tradition where Americans gather and give thanks for the blessings in their lives.
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Well that’s reassuring.
Either I or an honored guest will read the Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789 each year.
Could be more ritual rather than genuine gratitude but let’s hope it’s more the latter.
How about every meal?
Most of the time, I also pray when I drink a Coke or a cup of coffee.
I got a letter this week from my 11 yr old grandson..with a letter from his school also. A Christian school.
He wrote a paragraph of fun and etc . His last sentence was.
(”I am praying for you.”
Love, your favorite grandson)
Is there anything more dear to a grandma’s heart...
Very.
Imagine the situation of the First Thanksgiving. You have experienced some hard winters. Been a long hard summer to grow food. You do finally get your food supply together for the coming hard winter.
Now, I hate to admit it. But PeterPrinciple would have had a party in the spring with what was left over.
But they did it right.
Quite.
just about everyone in my wifes family is a big lib socialist. For some reason they don’t like it when I tell them that the Thanksgiving Dinner we are having is the Celebration of the END of Communism in America...
See William Bradfords Diary.
Maybe that’s why America dodged a big bullet on November 5 and the world dodged World War III: America is still ascendant, and God continues to shed His Grace upon us. President Trump is part of that Grace. We have much for which to be thankful!
Personally, I’m also glad for the mere fact that Thanksgiving is a national holiday where (conceptually, at least) Americans are reminded of God through Christ as the Giver of every good and perfect gift. AKA, the Father of Light. (James 1:17)
Bump!
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