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My Thanksgiving Prayer

My Thanksgiving Prayer

By Chuck Baldwin

November 22, 2011

That first Thanksgiving in the fall of 1621 saw about 50 Mayflower Pilgrims and 100 native Indians come together for a celebration feast consisting of a variety of homegrown vegetables--including corn, squash, beans, barley, and peas--along with wild turkey and venison. The precise date is not known, but it is believed to have taken place in late October or early November. Historians record that the Massachusetts weather was crisp, but not cold--and the fall foliage dazzled America's newcomers with a cornucopia of color.

These Pilgrims were mostly "Separatists," who had left Europe to
seek a land of liberty, where men could be free to worship God
according to the dictates of their own conscience--not according to
the demands of a State church or an oppressive government. They made their intentions and motivations clear when they signed America's first covenant, a document called The Mayflower Compact:

"We whose names are under-written . . . Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith . . ."

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