It’s almost here. America’s once a year eatting glutton fest of thankfulness better known as Thanksgiving. So to prepare you for the Turkey day, I’ll give you a few interesting facts so you can impress the relatives as you pass the cranberry sauce around the table. This year, instead of stuffing your face and drinking too much, wow your guests with this mental cornucopia o’ plenty. You can thank me later.
The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620.
The Thanksgiving Feast that the Pilgrims had with the Natives in 1621 lasted three days.
It is not a sure thing that turkey was part of the Thanksgiving Feast, but venison was definitely part of the meal.
All 13 colonies celebrated Thanksgiving together for the first time in 1777.
In 1941, Thanksgiving was declared by Congress to be a legal holiday, held on the fourth Thursday in November.
Jesus Christ, I think upon your sacrifice
You became nothing
Poured out your blood.
Many times, I’ ve wonder at your gift of life
I’m in that place once again
Yes, I’m in that place once again
And once again I look upon the cross where You died
I’m humbled by Your mercy and I’m broken inside
Once again I thank You,
Once again I pour out my life
Now You are exalted to the highest place
King of the Heavens, where one day I’ll bow
But for now, I’ll marvel at Your saving grace
I’m full of praise once again
Oh I’m full of praise once again
And once again I look upon the cross where You died
I’m humbled by Your mercy and I’m broken inside
Once again I thank You
Once again I pour out my life
Thank you for the cross
Thank you for the cross
Thank you for the cross, my friend
And once again I look upon the cross where You died
I’m humbled by Your mercy and I’m broken inside
Once again I thank You
Once again I pour out my life
As we march towards Easter, remember who makes everything glorious. In death, He is glorious. In life, He is glorious. Thank you Jesus for your death and resurrection.
It’s the end scene from Braveheart. I was at a conference where John Eldredge was speaking and he described this scene as the most accurate portrayle of Christ’s death (both symbolically and physically). He was beaten, broken, taunted and defamed, but it was all for one purpose. ”Freedom” says it all.
And the scene that follows the death. Men with the heart and charge of their leader, changed forever and giving it all in a fight. Freedom was given to us by Christ, but it’s our fight to claim it and keep it.
I was looking up the real history behind St. Patty for my kids and here’s what I found. It is really pretty interesting. Once you get past the myth, you find a man that loved the Lord and reached out to the lost (one of the few that did it peacefully).
The facts about St. Patrick are few. Most derive from the two documents he probably wrote, the autobiographical Confession and the indignant Letterto a slave-taking marauder named Coroticus. Patrick was born in Britain, probably in Wales, around 385 A.D. His father was a Roman official. When Patrick was 16, seafaring raiders captured him, carried him to Ireland, and sold him into slavery. The Christian Patrick spent six lonely years herding sheep and, according to him, praying 100 times a day. In a dream, God told him to escape. He returned home, where he had another vision in which the Irish people begged him to return and minister to them: “We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more,” he recalls in the Confession. He studied for the priesthood in France, then made his way back to Ireland.
He spent his last 30 years there, baptizing pagans, ordaining priests, and founding churches and monasteries. His persuasive powers must have been astounding: Ireland fully converted to Christianity within 200 years and was the only country in Europe to Christianize peacefully. Patrick’s Christian conversion ended slavery, human sacrifice, and most intertribal warfare in Ireland. (He did not banish the snakes: Ireland never had any. Scholars now consider snakes a metaphor for the serpent of paganism. Nor did he invent the Shamrock Trinity. That was an 18th-century fabrication.) [Slate.com]
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