Thanksgiving. Have you heard of it? Yes. Every year at Thanksgiving, people around the country write to me saying that they read aloud to their family my book on Squanto on the first Thanksgiving. I'm going to be talking about that in just a moment.

Hey, the folks, welcome to the show.

I just want to start.

I always want to start with getting something off my chest.

I am, and if you're guilty of this, there's forgiveness, there's grace, there's repentance. But I am, off the

charts disgusted, seeing Christmas decorations, decorated trees before Thanksgiving. It's like a

satanic fungus. Every year, it creeps forward inch by inch,

closer and closer to choke us. What is going on? You know, Christmas used to start,

oh, I don't know, on Christmas Eve, then it started a week before Christmas. Then it started,

you know, in early December, and then it started December 1st.

And I thought, what is happening? It's insane. This year, for the first time ever, to my true

astonishment, I've been seeing Christmas stuff everywhere before Thanksgiving.

One of the reasons that's wrong, morally, and on every other

level, is that you're kind of pushing away one of the greatest holidays that we have ever

celebrated in America. It is uniquely American, which of course Christmas is not.

I'm talking about Thanksgiving. The story of Thanksgiving, there's tons to it that I won't even

go into right now. But I want to focus on, in my new book on the American Revolution,

in my book, If You Can Keep It, and in other places,

I talk about the uniqueness of America, God's hand in America.

We who believe in the God of the Bible believe that God moves in history.

Things don't just happen, and he's kind of there, but actually that God moves in history.

And sometimes you see that very clearly.

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