Why Do We Have a Thanksgiving?

   I don’t know about you but my day’s are pretty busy with work, deadlines, shopping just for necessities for the people in our household like: foods, paper products (some of which I admit is for our various computers), doing laundry, cleaning house and when I had them; taking care of the children. Where in all of that did I take the time to express my thanks to all those in my life that were helpful to us? I know there were times I meant to thank those of my own household for doing their part in making everything work even in the most difficult of times, but I somehow managed to forget with my schedule.

   Giving thanks to God is only one of many reasons to have a Thanksgiving Day celebration. If Christian’s are living what they are preaching they should be giving thanks to God every day not just one day out of a year. Thanksgiving Day is a day to remember all the things to be thankful for that happened all year long in your life, and express that thanks by the sharing of a feast; just as the Pilgrims of our Nation’s history did with the Native American’s decades ago, after they helped the Pilgrims learn to farm the lands here.

   Have the American people become so self-centered and self-ritious that we now believe we do everything alone, by ourselves with no help or encouragements  from anyone around us? You run that business you work at completely alone which means you work every machine, do all of the necessary paper work, meeting potential new clients and stuff  to get your products on the market including driving them to wherever they go on time, unload the vehicle yourself and so on all at the same time? Those of you with children have no schools and teachers or babysitters to watch your children while you work so you do that too? No, I don’t buy into that lie; you have others in your life that help you do your daily things. Do you ever recognize them for the help they’ve been to you in what ever copacity they helped?

   Take Thanksgiving and reflect on the various things you have to be thankful for; small and great. It is important especially now, with the economy the way it is, to show one another you are thankful for them being there to do their part. Remember we are so busy during the year we don’t often give thanks to those around us for their efforts.

   Money hungry people would love nothing more then to put an end to Thanksgiving so they can make it just another work day where they get millions of dollars at the expense of man kinds hard labor, blood, sweat and tears. They don’t celebrate anything for fear it would cost them a penny or two of the millions they already have; and if they could devise ways of getting rid of workers so they didn’t have to pay out for their work they would. Those people live misserable and lonely lives, and they can’t take the money with them when they pass from this world anyway; they place strings on everything they do even for their families and then wonder why they have no real love and respect from their family members. Hording money and never showing thanks for what others do for you never got anyone anywhere; but into a cold empty life that leads to a cold empty grave in the end.

   The next time someone approaches you and condemns Thanksgiving as a religious day, ask them if they ever give thanks to those around them for their efforts that assist them; enabling them to do their daily routine things in life then just walk away. Don’t even wait for a reply, they probably won’t have one. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who takes the time to read my work, to my family who has put up with a lot for me to be able to do my work and to Triond for publishing my work and all of it’s many parts and members.