Being thus arrived in a good harbour and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean

and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof

again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.

Happy Thanksgiving, almost.

It's Thanksgiving Week here at Young Herritics,

and it's time for a Thanksgiving special.

If you've been with the show for a while you know that we like to take a pause in

our usual schedule of kind of Tuesday episodes and commemorate the holidays that come at the end of the year.

We did one for Halloween on sown and the mysteries of the thin places and the angels and demons

that seem to pass through them. Now we got to talk about gratitude and if

you've been with the show for a while you might remember that passage that I read. It's from

the Annals of William Bradford who was the governor of Plymouth Colony, the Puritans, the

separatists who arrived in America at Cape Cod.

That's a part of his description of what happened when they finally made land at Cape Cod.

This was November 11th, 1620, so this very month we commemorate that journey and ultimately of course their survival and their

interactions with the Indians and all of that stuff and so I told that story that whole story on

another episode of Young heretics our very first

Thanksgiving episode and if you're interested in more on that you can go back and

listen to that one but I wanted to bring that passage back up for a specific reason

when Thanksgiving comes that passage back up for a specific reason.

When Thanksgiving comes around these days,

every year, I feel a little bit more like,

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