2009 Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is coming soon. We used to have the best time of Thanksgiving and Christmas meals at my in law's house. We used to fly back home for these 2 occasions. Robins's mother teach me a true family time in Thanksgiving and Christmas time.

I love Christmas morning service and after that follow by a big beautiful lunch table at Robin's parent. I do remember that the presents were all over.

I was at the Emporium Mall in Bangkok the other day. The Christmas decoration is starting to fill in with all of the malls in Bangkok. People are ready to sell and to buy.

I have decided that I won't give Christmas presents to no one. Honestly I do not expected a cheque with love from Robins any more because my medication is very very expensive. I am sure I will get cheque from my In Laws. I will used it very wisely. No shoes but will travel.

When I say "Thankful" I am checking my own characters that to whom I am thanking to? and What you are "ABSOLUTELY" thankful for this year?

The following are what I understand about what is, what for, why and Where...questions links about the "Thanksgiving!"

"The grateful Pilgrims then declared a three-day feast, starting on December 13, 1621, to thank God and to celebrate with their Indian friends. While this was not the first Thanksgiving in America (thanksgiving services were held in Virginia as early as 1607), it was America's first Thanksgiving Festival."

"Pilgrim Edward Winslow described the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving in these words:

"Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sent four men on fowling [bird hunting] so that we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as... served the company almost a week... Many of the Indians [came] amongst us and... their greatest King, Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted; and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought... And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet BY THE GOODNESS OF GOD WE ARE... FAR FROM WANT."

"In 1789, following a proclamation issued by President George Washington, America celebrated its first Day of Thanksgiving to God under its new constitution. That same year, the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which President Washington was a member, announced that the first Thursday in November would become its regular day for giving thanks, "unless another day be appointed by the civil authorities." Yet, despite these early national proclamations, official Thanksgiving observances usually occurred only at the State level. "

"Lincoln's original 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation came - spiritually speaking - at a pivotal point in his life. During the first week of July of that year, the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, resulting in the loss of some 60,000 American lives. Four months later in November, Lincoln delivered his famous "Gettysburg Address." It was while Lincoln was walking among the thousands of graves there at Gettysburg that he committed his life to Christ. As he explained to a friend:

When I left Springfield [to assume the Presidency] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ."

"As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving each year, we hope they will retain the original gratefulness to God displayed by the Pilgrims and many other founding fathers , and remember that it is to those early and courageous Pilgrims that they owe not only the traditional Thanksgiving holiday but also the concepts of self-government, the "hard-work" ethic, self-reliant communities, and devout religious faith."

I would also say.... "Thank you very much my God for being with me in Good time and Bad time. Thank you for the wisdom that you give it to me not to forget you even in hard time of my life.

Again, Thank you to you my God!!