THANKSGIVING - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2021

 THANKSGIVING - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2021

BLESSINGS MY FRIENDS!!!

I do give THANKS for you!!!  

Some of you are regular readers, some might have just blundered onto this page today.  Today in the United States is Thanksgiving Day.  My heart is overflowing with thanksgiving and love!!!

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The following is a hymn I remember singing as a child.  Maybe you remember it too.

Now thank we all our God,

With heart and hands and voices,

Who wondrous things hath done,

In whom his world rejoices;

Who from our mother's arms

Hath blessed us on our way

With countless gifts of love,

And still is ours to-day.

O may this bounteous God

Through all our life be near us,

With ever joyful hearts

And blessed peace to cheer us;

And keep us in his grace,

And guide us when perplexed,

And free us from all ills

In this world and the next.

All praise and thanks to God

The Father now be given,

The son, and him who reigns,

With them in highest heaven,

The one eternal God,

Whom earth and heaven adore;

For thus it was, is now,

And shall be evermore.

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And, a second hymn.

We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;

He chastens and hastens His will to make known.

The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.

Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own.

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,

Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine;

So from the beginning the fight we were winning;

Thou, Lord, were at our side, all glory be Thine!

We all do extol Thee, Thou Leader triumphant,

And pray that Thou still our Defender will be.

Let Thy congregation escape tribulation;

Thy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!

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Can you picture the Pilgrims singing similar songs 400 years ago?  (Can you picture the Pilgrims taking selfies and sending them back to friends in England and Holland?) <grin>

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Have a blessed day!!!

LOVE WINS!!!

Karen