Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. Wish you a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving! Wishing you the gift of faith and the blessing of hope this thanksgiving day! We gather on this day to be thankful for what we have, for the family we love, the friends we cherish, and for the blessings that will come.

Here are some great ways to praise the Lord and what He says about them!

1. Praise Him by lifting your hands. Life up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord. –
2. Praise Him with singing.
3. Praise Him with your words.
4. Praise Him with dancing and instruments.
5. Praise Him in fellowship with other believers.

b : a public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness. 2 : the act of giving thanks. 3 : a prayer expressing gratitude.

I will glory in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together. I thank you, Lord, with all my heart; I sing praise to you before the gods.

Thanksgiving Day, annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Americans generally believe that their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people.

the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgment of benefits or favors, especially to God. an expression of thanks, especially to God. a public celebration in acknowledgment of divine favor or kindness. a day set apart for giving thanks to God.

Thanksgiving is important because it’s a positive and secular holiday where we celebrate gratitude, something that we don’t do enough of these days. It’s also a celebration of the fall harvest. In the United States, Thanksgiving always falls on the fourth Thursday in November; therefore, the date changes every year.

The most common way to wish someone a pleasant day is to say “Happy Thanksgiving”. You may also say: May your blessings be multiplied this year and throughout all your life. Happy Thanksgiving wishes to you!

7 Things to Feel Thankful for This Thanksgiving

• Sense of Safety. Many people throughout the world and even within the United States do not have a secure sense of safety this Thanksgiving.
• Good Health.
• Faithful Family.
• Strong Friendships.
• Loving Animals.
• Job to Work.
• Place to Call Home.

And what do you respond? – Thank you, you too! – Happy Thanksgiving to you too. – Thank you.

The National Day of Mourning is an annual protest organized since 1970 by Native Americans of New England on the fourth Thursday of November, the same day as Thanksgiving in the United States.

The event that Americans commonly call the “First Thanksgiving” was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621. This feast lasted three days, and—as recounted by attendee Edward Winslow— was attended by 90 Wampanoag and 53 Pilgrims.

The so-called first Thanksgiving has been celebrated and taught to schoolchildren as the origin story of what would later become the United States. But many Native Americans say Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the slaughter of millions of Indigenous people and the theft of their lands by outsiders.

Thanksgiving (French: Action de grâce), or Thanksgiving Day (French: Jour de l’Action de grâce) is an annual Canadian holiday, held on the second Monday in October, which celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year.

Parliament officially declares Thanksgiving as “a day of general thanksgiving to almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed.” While this mandate for Thanksgiving may not be observed by all Canadians in its entirety, the ideas of being thankful, of spending time with family, and sharing a …

A national civic holiday rather than a religious one, it was held to celebrate the recovery of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) from an illness. Thanksgiving was first observed as an annual event in Canada on 6 November 1879.

8 Other Countries that Celebrate Thanksgiving

• Liberia: Liberia brought the Thanksgiving tradition directly from America, owing to its beginnings as a resettlement colony for freed black Americans.
• Canada. (Shutterstock)
• Australia.
• Japan.
• United Kingdom.
• Germany.
• India.
• The Philippines.

Thanksgiving is one of the biggest holidays of the year in the United States—with huge parades, massive feasts, and football—but it’s decidedly lower key in Canada. (*The exceptions are the Atlantic provinces, where the holiday is an optional day off, and in Quebec, where the holiday isn’t as popular overall.)

Like its American counterpart, the Canadian Thanksgiving meal usually features a North American staple, the turkey, although ham or other roasts may be substituted. This centerpiece is complemented by an array of favorites: gravy, stuffing, autumn vegetables, and desserts.

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• Potatoes. Preferably mashed, of course, but you can serve ’em up other ways, too.
• Sweet potatoes. Not to be confused with the other kind of potato, there are plenty of ways you can prepare sweet potatoes as well.
• Brussels sprouts. Brussels sprouts are all the rage lately.
• Gravy.
• Bread.
• Cranberry sauce.
• Squash.
• Corn.

While American Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November every year, in Canada they celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October. In the US, the tradition of Thanksgiving is linked specifically to the Pilgrims and settling in America rather than a successful harvest in general.

Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia. It began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Similarly named festival holidays occur in Germany and Japan.

A traditional Thanksgiving dinner consists of roast turkey, turkey stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, corn, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

So it makes sense that Liberia is, according to PRI’s The World, the only other country in the world to celebrate American Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Though a relatively small number of Liberians are actually descended from former slaves, the American immigrants imported the tradition to their new home.

Chuseok, also known as Korean Thanksgiving Day, is one of the most important and festive holidays of the year. This year, Chuseok falls on Thursday, September 19th, but the holiday period actually lasts for three days in total – including the day before and after Chuseok.