Thanksgiving

Psalm 100:1-5 (New International Version)

1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

2 Worship the LORD with gladness;

   come before him with joyful songs.

3 Know that the LORD is God.

   It is he who made us, and we are his[a];

   we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving

   and his courts with praise;

   give thanks to him and praise his name.

5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;

   his faithfulness continues through all generations.

To All Ye Pilgrims: Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as He has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience; now, I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and little ones, do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on Thursday, November ye 29th of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three, and third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to ye pastor, and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings. 

William Bradford, the governor of Plymouth Colony.

As we celebrate this Thanksgiving day let’s remember the words of the governor of Plymouth colony. Let us “render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings.

Dear Lord we want to take today to thank You for all the many blessings that You have allowed for each of us to receive. In Jesus’ name, Amen.