By: Lloyd Marcus This is my first Thanksgiving without my preacher dad who went to be with the Lord in June at age 90. I smile when remembering when I was a little boy, Dad included me and my four younger siblings in his sermon. Every year, Dad's east Baltimore storefront church sold tickets for their bus trip to Hersey Park, Pennsylvania. Preaching from the pulpit, Dad told the congregation, “When the bus … [Read more...]
Seriously? You Expect Me to be Thankful for This?
November 27, 2014, 4:16 pm by 3 Comments
PolitiJim's Rants for Reasonable People As I write this, I’m unable to be with my family today, have numerous personal struggles, and have friends who are struggling to eat – much less walk in the fullness of their calling and careers. On the national front, we see not only record poverty and unemployment, but - perhaps far worse - a poverty of character and moral compass that we as a nation used to be able … [Read more...]
An American Thanksgiving
November 28, 2013, 4:31 am by Leave a Comment
What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving? As I was looking around a department store the other day while thinking about Thanksgiving and all that I was thankful for this year, I saw a sign that read, “There is always, always something to be thankful for.” It struck me as odd that we as Americans might require such a sign. Was there really even one person out there who needed to be reminded that they have a … [Read more...]
President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863 Called the Nation to Give Thanks to God
November 22, 2012, 5:14 pm by 1 Comment
Noisy Room Happy Thanksgiving! Video, "Thanksgiving 1863" Read more at Freedom’s Lighthouse… H/T: BB From Wikipedia via Gulag: In the middle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale,[1] proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863. The document, written by … [Read more...]
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