This past weekend millions ate turkey, traveled hundreds of miles to spend time with their families, and showed up at major retailers as early as 5:00 AM. As Americans did these things men of the cloth, sociologists, and demographers wondered what was on the mind of the average American.
Getting the latest, best deal on consumer products certainly got 197 million of us moving through stores, but we ogled and did not buy much. Black Friday sales were only up only .5% as Americans went on their traditional day-after-Thanksgiving shopping spree. We know that Wall Street aficionados were worried about the news of the Dubai debt crisis because it is inexplicable and it seems like a harbinger of future problems.
Against this fluid backdrop of concern and financial worry, many people would ask, "What 's there to be thankful about?" Although I am a minister, I avoid preaching in this column; nonetheless the season and the circumstances beg another question in response to the hypothetical question I just posed, "How many of us really celebrated the holiday in proper fashion?"
Undoubtedly very few people did. Let me explain.
Long before European settlers landed on American shores, Native Americans hosted harvest festivals. What makes our current holiday special is that the Pilgrim colonists (who landed at Plymouth in 1621) and settlers like Captain John Woodlief (who landed at the Berkeley Plantation in Virginia in 1619) gave thanks to the Christian God.
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Against this fluid backdrop of concern and financial worry, many people would ask, "What 's there to be thankful about?" Although I am a minister, I avoid preaching in this column; nonetheless the season and the circumstances beg another question in response to the hypothetical question I just posed, "How many of us really celebrated the holiday in proper fashion?"
Undoubtedly very few people did. Let me explain.
Long before European settlers landed on American shores, Native Americans hosted harvest festivals. What makes our current holiday special is that the Pilgrim colonists (who landed at Plymouth in 1621) and settlers like Captain John Woodlief (who landed at the Berkeley Plantation in Virginia in 1619) gave thanks to the Christian God.
Click Here to Read More...
Source: Christian Post
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