The First Thanksgiving

Tradition holds that the first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 by the Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock. The previous winter had been very hard, and they did not have enough provisions to last them much longer. The hero of the story is a native named Squanto who taught the settlers to fish and helped them grow crops, and they celebrated a good harvest and friendship with the natives.

Of all the things for which we should be thankful, the greatest is life. We should be thankful for our physical lives, but more than that, we should be thankful for our spiritual lives.

Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. (Romans 6:16-18)