{"id":729,"date":"2010-11-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2010\/11\/happy-thanksgiving.html"},"modified":"2016-03-25T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:39:29","slug":"happy-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2010\/11\/happy-thanksgiving.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Even though Christmas may have become secularized, the beauty of Thanksgiving is that it certainly retains its religious tone. When we give thanks, we always have to give thanks for something to someone. If someone says, \u201cI am thankful,\u201d one can ask two logical questions, \u201cfor what?\u201d and \u201cto whom?\u201d If a person can\u2019t answer either of these two questions, then it\u2019s silly for the person to say \u201cI am thankful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When we celebrate Thanksgiving, there is an understood sense that we are thankful for the blessings we have received and that we are thanking God for them.<\/p>\n<p>This last year I had the opportunity to visit Plymouth, Massachusetts, the site of the first Thanksgiving in 1621. Here are some pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Plymouth Plantation is a reconstruction of the original colony just a few miles away from its original site which is the present-day city of Plymouth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1081\/4732118132_04a737a320_m.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand; width: 240px; height: 180px;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1081\/4732118132_04a737a320_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In school everyone learns the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. It was an anticlimactic experience when I saw the much talked about Plymouth Rock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1057\/4731503695_8d29d93e1f_m.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand; width: 240px; height: 180px;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1057\/4731503695_8d29d93e1f_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a 1950s replica of the Mayflower called the Mayflower II.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1222\/4732152578_17e7406466_m.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand; width: 180px; height: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1222\/4732152578_17e7406466_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Unitarian Universalist Church sits on the site of the original meeting house of the colony. The sign in front of it reads \u201c1620 First Parish in Plymouth\u201d and a plaque states \u201cThe Church of Scrooby Leyden and the Mayflower gathered on this hillside in 1620 has ever since preserved unbroken records and maintained a continuous ministry its first covenant being still the basis of its fellowship in reverent memory of its pilgrim founders. This fifth meeting-house was erected A.D. MDCCCXCVII\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1181\/4732128010_84e07dc2b5_m.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand; width: 240px; height: 180px;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/613\/images\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1181\/4732128010_84e07dc2b5_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All these pictures are mine, all rights reserved<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Christmas may have become secularized, the beauty of Thanksgiving is that it certainly retains its religious tone. When we give thanks, we always have to give thanks for something to someone. If someone says, \u201cI am thankful,\u201d one can ask two logical questions, \u201cfor what?\u201d and \u201cto whom?\u201d If a person can\u2019t answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Thanksgiving<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Even though Christmas may have become secularized, the beauty of Thanksgiving is that it certainly retains its religious tone. 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