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| It was the first time I used the roaster for a turkey since we would be using the oven for several other dishes. Works awesome! |
Thom Duarte posted, on Facebook, posted the Thanksgiving Proclamation from the Florida Library website (and I'm SO GLAD he did).....
Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation :
WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:"
NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and assign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed;-- for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish Constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;-- for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge;-- and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
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| There's nothing like cooking that turkey everybody's been anxiously waiting all morning [and into the afternoon] for...and there's nothing like waiting for that turkey feast either. Even Mav got into the excitement. |
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
(signed) G. Washington
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Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing our great Redeemer's praise! This is one day I would enjoy to have lasting more than one day in all it's delectable celebratory glory. Oh, to sit [days longer] in appreciative silence...being still and knowing God as He truly is. For He is why were are here with a purpose.
It was not until 1941 that Congress sanctified Thanksgiving....
Congress Establishes Thanksgiving
On September 28, 1789, just before leaving for recess, the first Federal Congress passed a resolution asking that the President of the United States recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving. A few days later, President George Washington issued a proclamation naming Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a "Day of Publick Thanksgivin" - the first time Thanksgiving was celebrated under the new Constitution. Subsequent presidents issued Thanksgiving Proclamations, but the dates and even months of the celebrations varied. It wasn't until President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Proclamation that Thanksgiving was regularly commemorated each year on the last Thursday of November.
In 1939, however, the last Thursday in November fell on the last day of the month. Concerned that the shortened Christmas shopping season might dampen the economic recovery, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a Presidential Proclamation moving Thanksgiving to the second to last Thursday of November. As a result of the proclamation, 32 states issued similar proclamations while 16 states refused to accept the change and proclaimed Thanksgiving to be the last Thursday in November. For two years two days were celebrated as Thanksgiving - the President and part of the nation celebrated it on the second to last Thursday in November, while the rest of the country celebrated it the following week.
To end the confusion, Congress decided to set a fixed-date for the holiday. On October 6, 1941, the House passed a joint resolution declaring the last Thursday in November to be the legal Thanksgiving Day. The Senate, however, amended the resolution establishing the holiday as the fourth Thursday, which would take into account those years when November has five Thursdays. The House agreed to the amendment, and President Roosevelt signed the resolution on December 26, 1941, thus establishing the fourth Thursday in November as the Federal Thanksgiving Day holiday.
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| I used apple cider to marinate the turkey this year. Sweet and savory is definitely deletable! |
It is with great sadness that historical revisionism has been such a common practice for decades. Thus, less and less American elementary students are being taught the true Thanksgiving story and how it is perfectly tightly connected to our Christian roots. Therefore....less and less Americans celebrate this beautifully historical day, in their hearts, as it was originally intended while feasting on that fattened turkey and all the fixings.
The original Mayflower Compact is additional "evidence" of the Christian roots from which Thanksgiving was eventually brought about.
In modern english:
IN THE name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, King James, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the 11 of November, in the year of the reign of our sovereign lord, King James, of England, France, and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domine 1620.
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So, it is with great American Thanksgiving pride [humbly originated by William Bradford] Christian families should recite the original Mayflower Compact in humble remembrance and gratitude to the God of our fathers.
....and let it not be overshadowed by the tsunami of greed by the following day of "black friday" which is quickly becoming a holiday in itself [and at this point is covered by 24,000 news stories with Thanksgiving news stories at 31,000]. May we not forget the tens of millions of fellow Americans that will be deeply suffering this winter due to the continuing decline of our economy.
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