Happy Thanksgiving

Dear Seth,

Richard's Thoughts

Well Friends, here we are again with another Thanksgiving
upon us. Let all of us thank our higher power for all the
blessings that he has bestowed upon us, especially our
health. May we pray for peace, throughout the world,
and help those in need.

Thanksgiving

The tradition of celebrating thanks dates back nearly 400
years.

The first American Thanksgiving was a three-day harvest
festival celebrated in 1621 by the pilgrims and Native
Americans at Plymouth, Mass. For the next 150 years,
Thanksgiving celebrations were held sporadically. George
Washington issued the first national Thanksgiving
proclamation in 1789, the year of his inauguration. He
issued another proclamation in 1795. On October 3, 1863,
in the middle of the Civil War, President Abraham appointed
a notional day of Thanksgiving to be observed on the last
Thursday in November. Every president after Lincoln issued
an annual proclamation to set the date of Thanksgiving,
which continued until 1941 when a joint congressional
resolution officially set the date as the fourth Thursday
in November.

The feeling of thankfulness is quite different from all
other emotions. Gratefulness is a complex and powerful
emotion that is inherently connected with the condition of
faith. The word grateful comes from the latin root gratus,
which in also the root word of gratis and grace.

To be thankful requires an acknowledgement of two important
aspects of our lives; 1) that we have something for which
to be thankful and 2) that we have someone or something to
which to be thankful. We cannot have one without the other
for they are indivisibly linked.

As we take stock of our good fortune and many blessings, we
find that the most impressive wonders of life seem far from
our conscious control...the beauty of a fall sunset, the
majesty of a mountain vista at dawn, the elegant site of a
deer casually crossing a brilliant fairway, the radiant
warmth of the sun on a clear, cool morning, the awesome
site of a rainbow, that beautiful red cardinal prancing
around on the green, near the cup. These simple, yet
amazing phenomena bless all those who take the time to
notice and appreciate them. More personally, if we review
most impressive blessing of our lives, virtually all of
them seem to have been beyond our control...perhaps gratis or
grace inspired. Being golfers outside, on our well
manicured courses, we are very aware and appreciative of
our natural beauty.

As our planet moves rapidly into an era of increasingly
idealistic visions and dreams, the importance of
thankfulness cannot be overstated. Let us all be thankful
for our many blessings today and even more thankful for the
amazing blessing we are certain to experience in the coming
years. For thanks produces faith, and faith in our visions
produces our tomorrows.

Thank all of you for blessing my life with your support
over the last several years, thank you for being my friend,
and a Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

Until next time, good golfing!

Dr Richard C Myers

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