November 24, 2007

• i saw this on my lovely friend sara's blog, and it travelled directly to my heart, as great words tend to do.  so i'm reposting it here.  i could chatter on about my first thanksgiving without any of my family, six different pies, slimy green stuff, christmas coloring books, grumpy great-great-uncle bud, stacks of albums of baby pictures, and lots of laughter as i spend almost four whole days (exclamation point!) with the boy, which just seems like an added holiday present...

  but.

  i'm not.

  read some abraham lincoln instead.

  It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people.
  
  I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
  
  And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore if, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.
  
  Abraham Lincoln, 1863

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