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Happy Thanksgiving: My Visit to Plymouth Rock
This week I spoke at two dinners at a retirement center. My mother is in memory care there.
It was a wonderful opportunity to cheer up the “builder generation” with the legacy of the Pilgrims and the colony they established in Massachusetts some 405 years ago
I reprint today the special visit I took to Plymouth Rock 37 years ago. This Thanksgiving we should thank our brave Pilgrim forefathers for their vision, wisdom and sacrifice that led to the making of the United States.
Happy Thanksgiving–Remembering Plymouth Rock & the Pilgrims
I wrote about the Pilgrims recently while disagreeing with Bill O’Reilly about their faith. By all accounts from numerous original sources, those who landed in Plymouth in November of 1620 were some of the finest “Americans” these shores have ever welcomed.
I reprint today a very special visit I took to Plymouth Rock thirty-five years ago. This Thanksgiving we should thank our brave Pilgrim forefathers for their vision, wisdom and sacrifice that led to the making of the United States.
Thanksgiving–Our Uniquely American Holy Day
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American “holy day” that arose out of the deep faith of our spiritual ancestors–the Pilgrims–who came to these shores in November of 1620. Other nations celebrate it (like Canada to the north), and Israel enjoyed many holidays that were used to give gratitude to God.
But our American Thanksgiving is different. It came from a community of New Testament believers who not only grasped the importance of thanking God in all things, but experienced a providential act they never forgot.