Well my stateside family are gathering today to celebrate Thanksgiving
Below is a brief idea of what Thanksgiving is for .
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26. As a federal and popular holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. Together with Christmas and the New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.
The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated to give thanks to God for guiding them safely to the New World.The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, providing enough food for 13 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.The feast consisted of fish (cod, eels, and bass) and shellfish (clams, lobster, and mussels), wild fowl (ducks, geese, swans, and turkey), venison, berries and fruit, vegetables (peas, pumpkin, beetroot and possibly, wild or cultivated onion), harvest grains (barley and wheat), and the Three Sisters: beans, dried Indian maize or corn, and squash.The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.
Here in England we do not Celebrate Thanksgiving but I have to say there are many things I am very thankful to God for today.
Firstly friends of the family heard today that their daughters had got into school in Dubai.
Next is that AJ is nearly ready to move to her new home.
Then obviously I am very thankful that Gemma is doing well in her pregnancy in the next month we will be meeting baby Cook for the first time.
I am also Thankful that I have food on the table tonight and a roof over my head , it reminds me that there are so many people that do not have homes and are so poor that they can not feed themselves.
So I just want to say a hugeTHANK YOU to God for all the good things in my life
Happy Thanksgiving
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