Happy Turkey Day!!!
I want to take a few moments to wish all the readers of Indiana Barrister a Happy Thanksgiving.
This will be a special one for me for a couple of reasons. This will be the first one with my lovely wife and as some of you may be aware, my Dad has serious health issues this year, but is doing great now. I’m thankful for both of them, as well as my friends and close family.
I’m also thankful for all of you who read the blog, listen to the radio show and watch me on television. Enjoy your Thanksgiving. I’ll be back with more gossip, rumor and blatant innuendo next week.
Gobble! Gobble!
November 26th, 2009 at 8:28 am
EVery year when I was growing pu, my grandpa used to use what seemed like a throw-away line in his family dinner prayer: “Bless us now and bless us with good health.”
I share your parental health issues, and it's no fun. But, the cycle of life continues, and there are always the yes of offspring, watching how we handle the health of our parents.
God's richest blessings to you and yours this Thanksgiving.
November 26th, 2009 at 8:28 am
*up
November 26th, 2009 at 8:29 am
**eyes damn I need to go back and sleep some more
November 26th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Happy Thanksgiving to all. I too share in a parents health probem. My mother is 93 years old and many thinks this will be her last thanksgiving with us.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Abdul,
As you know, you and I don't always agree, but I appreciate what you do. I can relate to the way you feel about your father. I just lost my dad in February, so this Thanksgiving will be difficult in some ways but great in that I can share it with my mother and my family.
I wish you nothing but the best this Thanksgiving, and congratulations on all your accomplishments in the past year, sir.
Best Regards,
Jon Easter
November 26th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Happy Thanksgiving to all! Here's where it started, President Washington's proclamation, a sentiment he intended to all, on and beyond these shores.
George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to “recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789.
November 26th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
EVery year when I was growing pu, my grandpa used to use what seemed like a throw-away line in his family dinner prayer: “Bless us now and bless us with good health.”
I share your parental health issues, and it's no fun. But, the cycle of life continues, and there are always the yes of offspring, watching how we handle the health of our parents.
God's richest blessings to you and yours this Thanksgiving.
November 26th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
*up
November 26th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
**eyes damn I need to go back and sleep some more
November 26th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Happy Thanksgiving to all. I too share in a parents health probem. My mother is 93 years old and many thinks this will be her last thanksgiving with us.
November 26th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Abdul,
As you know, you and I don't always agree, but I appreciate what you do. I can relate to the way you feel about your father. I just lost my dad in February, so this Thanksgiving will be difficult in some ways but great in that I can share it with my mother and my family.
I wish you nothing but the best this Thanksgiving, and congratulations on all your accomplishments in the past year, sir.
Best Regards,
Jon Easter
November 26th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Happy Thanksgiving to all! Here's where it started, President Washington's proclamation, a sentiment he intended to all, on and beyond these shores.
George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to “recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d day of October, A.D. 1789.