November Thoughts

 My dear friends and fellow workers in Christ:

November 28, this year, will be the Feast of Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, Thanksgiving has become the forgotten feast day because it is not easy to secularize.

First, we have just passed Halloween a day of candy and costumes. Halloween is a feast that is easy to secularize. We have lost the fact that Halloween is the Eve of All Saints Day.  That was the original meaning, the day brings to mind the old Scottish Prayer, “From ghosties and ghoulies and long-legged beasties good Lord deliver us”.

Go into Wal-Mart, Home Depot, or Lowes and you will find that Halloween goes right into Christmas. All of us know how we have allowed Christmas to be made a secular holiday. Christ is no more in the picture.  It is all Santa, trees, and gifts. Christ, the reason for the season is gone.

As I said, Thanksgiving is hard to secularize so it is overlooked.  It is a time set aside for us to give thanks. Thanks to God who has given us all we have. Thanks for our families who love and support us. Thanks for our friends who we associate and laugh with. 

Thanksgiving, to make it short, is a time to give thanks for all we have,

So on this Thanksgiving Day when we sit down for dinner remember to give thanks to God, the author of the Feast.

God bless you all,

The Rev. Glenn Duffy