It’s not about a turkey or a parade. It’s about our nation, led by God, and gratitude for family, friends and the opportunities provided in this land, graced with the liberty and freedom that God our Father has given to us. May your heart be filled with blessings and gratitude on this day.
On October 3, 1863, Abraham Lincoln made a proclamation to set aside a day in this Great Nation to give thanks to God. He wrote it this way, “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” It was at a time of great hardship in America during the swelling of the civil war when the nation was divided against itself, yet functioning the best it could in the midst of such great calamity.
October 3, 1863
By the President of the United States
A Proclamation
The year that is drawing toward 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 the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and provoke their aggressions, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict; while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
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 one 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, tranquility, and union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United Stated States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.
-Abraham Lincoln
It was never about pilgrims or black Friday xmas sales. It was always about prayer, and healing our great nation under God and restoration “consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union”.
May each of you find peace in your heart this day and know with God you are never alone and never forgotten. So whether you prepare a meal today alone, or you are blessed to share a meal with family and friends, remember your Father in heaven is with you at your table, along with His son and the Holy Spirit. That is the greatest gift of all and the most precious blessing to be thankful for.
And when the meal is done and the evening passes… remember to give thanks again tomorrow and every day for what God has given to you.
KEEP ON PRESSING INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD! PRESS, PRESS, PRESS!
DIANNE
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To think another lie not about pilgrims. It never sat right and now I know the truth! Thanks Dianne! I would be so lost without God, Jesus and Holy Spirit not to mention with out your Marshall Report! TY
The pilgrim story has been taught since long ago, but the Pilgrims on the Mayflower came to the new land… they came as did many to escape religious persecution. The colonies were not the USA and there was no set holiday to celebrate Thanksgiving until Lincoln deemed it in his proclamation. Even though Limabugh, r.i.p. told it every year. We never went to the moon either, even though we were taught that we did, and we have had so much history twisted even J6. We know how easy it is done and we did not evolve from Apes and there wasn’t a big bang. There is God Almighty and always has been. We struggle now to find all the truths… as best as we can. Amen.
Amen! You help us learn and we dig more to because of you! TY😁I remember the fake moon landing, mostly because that was the same time my grandmother died, it looked like toys kids played with, it was so funny looking. Can you imagine them telling us we came from apes!😳 I too fell for this and then thought whoa wait a minute that would mean no God and that’s Not True! I knew first hand back then because, God, helped me and has continued to help thru to this day! God, made ALL Creature’s Great and Small. Amen😊💗✨🌅🔥
AMEN!! That is beautiful!!
Rush Limbaugh- The Real Story of Thanksgiving
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Happy Thanksgiving, Dianne
And thanks for all the excellent articles!
♥️
Hi Diane,
I just want to wish you and your family a blessed and Happy Thanksgiving. I have certainly been blessed by your news letters each day and thank you so much for doing the task that God has asked of you. May you be held now and forever in safety, good health, and much joy in Jesus name, Amen 😀🙏🏻🕊
Amen,a warrior of truth.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!😊🙏💕🇺🇸🦃