Happy Thanksgiving!
Katie told me to read aloud George Washington’s First Thanksgiving Proclamation, so I did, and wow! how awesome to read our nation’s first president giving thanks to Almighty God so clearly and powerfully.
Many misguided people in our nation today claim that “church and state must be separated” and by that they mean the abolishment of all religion and religiously-founded laws, celebrations, displays, etc. But that is a perversion of what the separation of church and state truly means and a foreign concept to our nation’s founders and all generations since except for our own.
Don’t believe me? Then go read Washington’s proclamation. Who else but God are we giving thanks to on this day?
When I was an atheist, Thanksgiving was kind of the lead-up to Christmas where we got to eat turkey and got together with our family–it was nice, to be sure, but I was not thankful to anyone or anything in particular besides perhaps my immediate family who loved me. Now as a Christian I know the True Lord of the Universe, Jesus Christ, and I love to give thanks to Him for his manifold blessings and love.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving and offer humble thanks to our glorious God!
