On Thursday of this week we celebrate, as a nation, THANKSGIVING DAY. The event commonly called the First Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 after their first harvest in the New World. In 1789 George Washington named Thursday, November 26th a day of Public Thanks, the first time it was celebrated under our American Constitution. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that a day of Thanks should be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of every November. Finally, in 1941 Theodore Roosevelt and the Congress proclaimed that Thanksgiving Day would be on the fourth Thursday in November. It was originally a religious day when people gathered to give thanks to God for things received. It seems to be only a secular day now, when the focus is on eating and watching football. Put God also back into Thanksgiving! Thank Him for all that you have received during the past year. Say a prayer!