Thanksgiving & Thanksgiving Day

    Thanksgiving Day is traditionally a day when friends and families get together for a special meal. That at times includes turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie, and vegetables. Thanksgiving Day is a time for many people to give thanks for what they have and give thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.

Thanksgiving is a particularly American holiday; they also celebrate it in Canada. Native People of North America have held ceremonies to give thanks for successful harvests, for the hope of a good growing season in the early spring, and for other good fortune such as the birth of a child. Giving thanks was, and still is, the primary reason for ceremonies or celebrations.

As with Native traditions in America, celebrations - complete with merrymaking and feasting - in England and throughout Europe after a successful crop are as ancient as the harvest-time itself. In 1621, when their labors were rewarded with a bountiful harvest after a year of sickness and scarcity, the Pilgrims gave thanks to God and celebrated His bounty in the Harvest Home tradition with feasting and sport (recreation). To these people of strong Christian faith, this was not merely a revel; it was also a joyous outpouring of gratitude.

Reflection

 Thanksgiving Day is the only day people actually stop and realize that they should be thankful for what they have. I’m not talking in general because some people do it daily they thank God for their lives and food and everything they have .So for me that’s an important day not only because we give thanks for what we have but at times that’s the only day or week you could actually spend time with your family members and be happy and have a little reunion. But you also have to have in consideration that there’s some other people in other parts of the world that wish to have what you have for example; food, shelter, and most important love .So you should keep that in mind and appreciate what you have even though it’s not what you want but at least you have the basics and if you don’t appreciate it there’s thousands of other people that would.  I’m thankful for so many things and God knows I always thank him for them. Mainly for my family them being healthy and me being able to live with them. For having and education and being healthy myself.

ª  Being able to come to school

ª  Have a house

ª  Being healthy

ª  Wake up and be alive

ª  My parents have a job

ª  Have a healthy family

ª  Have good grades

ª  Have clothes

ª  Food

ª  Happiness

ª  Money

ª  Not have to starve for not having food