Today is Thursday, November 25th, 2021, and Happy Thanksgiving.

We are thankful on this show.

I'm a very optimistic person.

I can get pretty upset at times, but this Thanksgiving special of the podcast, I really

want to focus in on why we should be thankful in a historic perspective, what it is that

makes America such an incredible nation that we can look past our present troubles as

we always have and be gracious and thankful and give gratitude to God for having us live

here, this still the greatest experiment and the greatest nation ever known to mankind,

a country that is built indeed on the principles set forth for all men to be created equal,

for all men to have a chance at life, liberty and happiness.

That happiness, of course, was hard fought.

The first Thanksgiving was a thanks for a bountiful harvest, but bounty only enjoyed amidst

suffering and scarcity, a bounty that was enjoyed amidst starvation and death.

The first pilgrims who arrive here on this continent had a really rough go.

Many did not survive, most did not survive and it was very hard to cultivate the land.

It was very hard to get any sustenance.

Also if you mix that with some pretty tough winter conditions, along with not great greetings

by many of the native peoples here in the Americas, boy, you had a rough go for the pilgrims.

When they finally did get a good harvest, they gave thanks.

They called it Thanksgiving and they celebrated the fact that they had survived their first

year here in the New England, here in the new Americas.

This was an enormous triumph.

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