"We pray for the big things, and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small, and yet really not so small, blessings.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Rejoice in the Lord always; and again I will say, rejoice; show patience and consideration to all, for the Lord is always near. Let nothing make you anxious; but with prayer, and by supplication, and with thanksgiving, let your needs be made known unto God; and the peace of the Lord, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds, in Christ Jesus."
Philippians 4:4-7
"I invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwells in the heavens.
And I recommend to them that they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union."
Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation of Thanksgiving, 3 October 1863
Thank you, Lord, from deep in my heart, for another year with my family and friends here and afar, those who remain with us, and those who wait to embrace us again.
May we always be generous and forgiving with each other, worthy and unworthy, as you have been to us, in your loving kindness and tender mercy.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Windsor Hotel, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1883
Plaza Hotel NYC 1899
Gettysburg Hotel, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 1909
