Thanksgiving Day I
By Paul H. Betancourt
Copyright November 2012
We have turned Thankgiving Day into a
time for family, football and kickoff for the holiday shopping season.
Now there is nothing wrong with family
or football, but that wasn't the original intent of the holiday.
I know Farmers grumble a lot, but even
we know we have a lot to be thankful for. We live in the Land of the Free,
because of the Brave. We live in the country with the greatest freedom,
opportunity and prosperity the world has ever known. We are living at the
beginning of the 21st Century after a century of amazing technological
innovation.
A hundred years ago an amazing man, half
a world away wrote some wise words about giving thanks. Dr. Albert Schweitzer
was a physician, theologian and world-class organ player. He was a man who
lived out his faith as a medical missionary.
What Schweitzer wrote about thanks
applies today.
"The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has
learned this knows what it means to live."
Happy Thanksgiving Y'All.
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