Today I give thanks to God for my rich and fulfilling life. I give thanks today and every day for all the wonderful people I know, my family, my friends, my associates, my blogger buddies, the hosts at Blog Talk Radio, the politician lawyers and citizen candidates I’ve met- who are running for the nomination in the February primary, and all those I’ve been fortunate enough to meet along the way.
I give thanks for my injuries because I would not have met the wonderful people who have helped me recover. I give thanks for the pain, that I may know a day some day soon when I may be pain free. I have a special and personal understanding for those who live with chronic pain; and I know that this understanding helps me be a more compassionate person. I know that feeling that I see in someone’s eyes who experiences chronic pain without them having to tell me; I somehow have a connection to people who suffer that goes beyond words.
I give thanks for the difficulties, for I would not know what happy times are if everything was always on an even keel. I give thanks for the challenges, because without them I would not learn and grow.
And Lord, I thank you for my life, for your love, for the blessed blood of Christ on the Cross–and for my very life and the ability to be a part of all the things I’m engaged in, and ask that I be granted the peace of mind to continue following whatever path You set for me.
I continue striving to make a difference.
God bless you all, and have a great Thanksgiving. Hold your loved ones close, and don’t forget to tell those close to you that you love them.
General Thanksgiving
By the PRESIDENT of the United States Of America
A PROCLAMATIONWHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houfes of Congress have, by their joint committee, requefted me “to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to eftablifh a form of government for their safety and happiness:”
NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and affign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of thefe States to the fervice of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our fincere and humble thanksfor His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the fignal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpofitions of His providence in the courfe and conclufion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have fince enjoyed;– for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to eftablish Conftitutions of government for our fafety and happinefs, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;– for the civil and religious liberty with which we are bleffed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffufing useful knowledge;– and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been pleafed to confer upon us.
And also, that we may then unite in moft humbly offering our prayers and fupplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and befeech Him to pardon our national and other tranfgreffions;– to enable us all, whether in publick or private ftations, to perform our feveral and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a bleffing to all the people by conftantly being a Government of wife, juft, and conftitutional laws, difcreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all fovereigns and nations (especially fuch as have shewn kindnefs unto us); and to blefs them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increafe of fcience among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind fuch a degree of temporal profperity as he alone knows to be beft.
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine.
(signed) G. Washington
Source: The Massachusetts Centinel, Wednesday, October 14, 1789
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