While grateful, celebratory feasts were nothing new, Thanksgiving specifically is an originally American holiday of food, drink, merriment, and expressing thanks for the plentiful abundances of harvest, immediately in advance of the long wintertime. From the 1621 Plymouth Plantation event with settlers and a native tribe, through Washington’s and Lincoln’s proclamations, to today, we join around food-laden tables across this great and bountiful land, whether with family, friends or strangers, to give thanks for each other, our lives, and their many blessings bestowed by our Creator. Whatever your place in life, wherever you’re going on this traditional day of gratitude, may you discover and appreciate those blessings, and find peace in offering gratitude for them.
