Daily Devotion - Wednesday, November 25, 2015
For the remainder of this week we'll be reflecting on Gratitude--because it's Thanksgiving Week, brothers and sisters! Tomorrow many of us will gather around tables with friends and loved ones, and we'll celebrate Thanksgiving. We'll share a meal (or three), the many blessings we've been given and perhaps some laughter, too. More than a few of us will fall asleep on the couch afterward with football on the television, and the sounds of our family in the background. While most Americans will enjoy Thanksgiving to the fullest, there are few of us who know the history of this great holiday. It was, in fact, Abraham Lincoln who set aside the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. For the next 75 years each President would do the same--annually declaring Thanksgiving a national holiday. In 1941, Congress finally acted to make Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday. So why did Lincoln think it was so important to ...