Thanksgiving: A Grateful Heart
Thanksgiving is a time of family, tradition, love, abundance, and appreciation. It’s celebrated nationwide annually by all cultures and religions, and in other countries on different days in different ways. Here in the USA, it’s the most heavily travelled day of the year marking it as one of the most popular national celebrations. For many, it kicks off the holiday season beginning an exciting time of gathering, feasting, and memory making. Our celebration of Thanksgiving began in 1621 at a Plymouth feast prompted by a good harvest. President George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide Thanksgiving celebration on November 26,1789. He declared it a day observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many favors received. It’s been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. In...
