Reasons why this holiday is worth celebrating:

•   Thanksgiving started in our land as an opportunity for citizens to thank God.  When our children were taught in the public school that the holiday was memorializing “the fact” that the pilgrims were thanking the Indians, I protested, and proved from the pilgrims’ own writings that they thanked God!

•   Thanksgiving brings people together.  Families and individuals come together to thank God and to enjoy one another.  We will be having a worship service here with St. Luke’s Parish Darien, on Wednesday, November 24 at 7:00 p.m.  Come for fellowship and refreshments at 6:30 p.m.

•    Thanksgiving gives us the opportunity to count our blessings and to share with those who are less fortunate than we are.  Thank you for your response to help restock the Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County in Stamford and Person-to-Person in Darien.

•    Thanksgiving provides us with the time to reflect and pray.  Be sure to take advantage of the time off from your normally busy schedule to “be still and know that God is God.”  At this holiday season we need to think about our country and how far we seem to be from God.  It is a duty and privilege for Christians to pray for our nation.  It is appropriate that the appointed Scripture for this annual celebration is from Deuteronomy 8.  The people of the Lord are warned not to forget God and His good provision;  we are not to say “my power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me”.  The consequences of walking away from God are disastrous.  Pray for our nation.

All in all, we have so much to be thankful for, and I thank God for you!

Happy Thanksgiving,

Christopher

The Rev. Christopher P. Leighton

Rector

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