So very many people in our world cannot say the same...

The food is prepared. The house is clean. The table is set. Family are on there way to celebrate. Our day will be thankful and full of blessings. Our day will have peace and good health. Our day will be joyful.

So very many people in our world cannot say the same...

It makes me wonder how far we have ventured from where President Lincoln desired our great country to be through his Thanksgiving proclamation made so many, many years ago.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God...

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 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. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

 Our country is still great, but how I wish that we would place more of our faith and decisions in the "ALMIGHTY HAND". How I wish and pray that our leaders, in all areas of our government, would give such a sincere speech and devotion to the "MOST HIGH GOD". How I wish our country's purposes were consistent with the "DIVINE PURPOSES".

Pray for our leaders. Pray for our country. Pray for restoration toward where we originally founded this great country. Pray for those that President Lincoln mentioned this thanksgiving..widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers, etc. We have many fellow countrymen that have lost loved ones overseas, spending thanksgiving without their families, struggling financially, or battling personal struggles.

Let's do what we can to ensure that this thanksgiving is exactly as President Lincoln proclaimed...a time to share in our blessings, follow and thank our Almighty Creator, support our country, and help others.

God Bless and Happy Thanksgiving!

Mama Drama Rule #78: Our country is not lost...we've just forgotten where we came from and who got us there.

*Thank you to LaLa for making me research how exactly Thanksgiving Day was started! Also, thank you to Emily for bringing this up recently. It was a great reminder...one that is all to easily forgotten!