Happy Thanksgiving

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends,
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

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher

Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.~Robert Burns

It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part.
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.~J.A. Shedd

So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. - Erma Bombeck