The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving

The Heidi St. John Podcast

Heidi St. John

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson, we see a glimpse of Sarah Hale’s spirit. She wrote persistently to officials in many levels of government promoting the observance of Thanksgiving as a unified national holiday. Not a woman to take “No” for an answer, Sarah kept on writing. For four decades and five Presidencies, Sarah wrote. She believed that observing Thanksgiving was a way that we, as a nation, could be unified. In October, 1863, President Lincoln, perhaps in response to an editorial Hale had published in the magazine she edited, read a Thanksgiving proclamation to the American people. We are still blessed by it today. **Find links and more under PODCASTS at HeidiStJohn.com**

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0:57.2	I've got plenty to be thankful for. I haven't got great big yachts to sail from shore
1:16.3	to shore. Still, I've got plenty to be thankful for. I've got plenty to be thankful for.
1:24.7	I've got a private car, no caviar, no carpet on my floor. Still, I've got plenty to be
1:30.0	thankful for. I've got eyes to see with, ears to hear with, arms to hug with, lips to kiss
1:35.4	with, someone to adore. How could anybody ask for more? My needs are small, I buy a
1:42.0	malt at the five and ten cent store. Oh, I've got plenty to be thankful for. How could
1:48.0	anyone ask for more? My needs are small, I buy a malt at the five and ten cent store.
1:53.1	I've got plenty to be thankful for. We have a lot to be thankful for. Don't we? We know
1:58.8	that thankfulness doesn't come from a five and ten cent store, but I loved the heart
2:04.3	behind this because basically it's being cross. We're saying, we don't need all the big
2:08.8	stuff, all the fancy things that people say that we need for Thanksgiving. Today, I'm
2:13.6	probably not going to go my full 20 minutes, but today, I thought I would just encourage
2:17.4	you with a little bit of history about this holiday that has become just ingrained and
2:24.2	part of the fabric of the United States. I love Thanksgiving because it's all of the,
2:32.4	I've told you guys for years, it's all of the wonderful family-ness and the together
2:37.4	and the sharing of food without all the pressure of the presence. Thanksgiving doesn't sparkle,
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