The week of Thanksgiving.

Today starts our Thanksgiving week in the United States of America. We celebrate the 4th Thursday of November to be the day we give thanks. Why was this day set aside in the United States of America. Today do we think about the first true Thanksgiving day that happened many many years ago.

With pilgrims and native American sharing their food and could been ideals with each other that marked the first Thanksgiving. Was there more to this meeting than we know. Was there a motive behind this day. We might never know.

Pilgrims  and Puritans emigrated from England in the 1620s and 1630s carried the tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to New England. The modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is traced to a well-recorded 1619. In 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. The Pilgrims celebrated this with the Wampanoags, a tribe of Native Americans who, along with the last surviving Patuxet, had helped them get through the previous winter by giving them food in that time of scarcity, in exchange for an alliance and protection against the rival Narragansett tribe.

This was how the first Thanksgiving happened in the United States of America. Some may have said that the first Thanksgiving was days after we celebrates the holiday in the United States of America.

In 1621 they all came to celebrate a great year of harvest. We also learn those who travel from England brought the tradition with them. It was days of celebration to be thankful because of the blessings God had given them.

Those who celebrate Thanksgiving in their own part of the world let’s not forget the truth behind it all. The truth is giving thanks to God. Giving thanks to him for all the many wonderful things that God provided along the way. As we celebrate this year let go beyond the tradition and remember those things God has provided and for who he is.

More tomorrow about Thanksgiving and the need to give God the thanks not just for that on day but for every day of the year