Thanksgiving is a national day – it is our nations day – a day we set aside, by both tradition and edict, to give thanks to our God, our Creator, for all the many blessings we enjoy, as a free people, in a safe and secure nation.
It is all together fitting that we give thanks, not only to our Creator, but to all those man and women, throughout the ages, who have served and who now so honorably serve in our armed forces, who put themselves in harms way, so that we might be free. As we have read so many times – freedom is not free. We all know, and must always remember, our freedom was purchased for us by the blood and sacrifice of those who came before us, and our fellow countrymen today. Each generation must make a payment on that freedom and we today must acknowledge that debt and make our own payment, in any way we are called upon to make that payment.
The world’s great religions are at war again, as they have been for so many hundreds of years. It has always struck me as a great tragedy and contradiction that we kill in the name of religion – any religion.
It will be my prayer this thanksgiving that your God, whoever that God may be, will grant you peace of mind, peace of spirit, and a sense of understanding and acceptance - of the God - your neighbor may worship – wherever your neighbor may be!
Jim
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