Thoughts and Reflections on Thanksgiving

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ~William Jennings Bryan Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart. ~J.A. Shedd Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. ~James Smith For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ~Izaak Walton God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward Some of Amy's Thanksgiving Designs: