rlhubley Posted November 20, 2001 Share Posted November 20, 2001 Hey all! The holidays are upon us and I doubt that I will be checking email or posting much after today, so I thought I would take a moment and wish you all a happy thanksgiving. Be safe and have fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted November 21, 2001 Share Posted November 21, 2001 OH, GET STUFFED! On turkey, and 'taters, and stuffing, and gravy, and yams, and pie...and all the good things. Happy Thanksgiving! [ 11-20-2001: Message edited by: Tedster ] "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djarrett Posted November 21, 2001 Share Posted November 21, 2001 Hey, rlhubley: Don't go away! and forget to come back! Have a great Thanksgiving. DJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felix stein Posted November 21, 2001 Share Posted November 21, 2001 I need a few days off. felix's band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrummerCafe Posted November 21, 2001 Share Posted November 21, 2001 I thought I would share this with you all. It's Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation. If you ever wanted to know why we celebrate Thanksgiving Day, here's why. Incidentally, I started a tradition with my family by reading Lincoln's Proclamation before we sit down for our Thanksgiving meal. I'm usually so moved and choked up that I can't eat for several minutes. Please take the time to read this in it's entirety; we have MUCH to be thankful for ... whether you are a God fearing person or not. Perhaps it will become a tradition in your home ... to read this each year before you dine. It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the LORD. We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to, feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. --Abraham Lincoln - October 3, 1863 Drummer Cafe - community drum & percussion forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felix stein Posted November 21, 2001 Share Posted November 21, 2001 I am grateful to a higher power and I am blessed for sure...God who has gifted the great felix stein with so many talents and riches...I don't deserve it. I still need a couple of days off to work on my left foot clave and syncopate some jazz ride turnarounds...LOL. felix's band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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