Whether you are rich or poor, stuffed or starving, we all have something to be thankful for. Even our worst days in this country are better than most people’s average on this planet.
For us here at Ninja Cow Farm, we are thankful for our health, our family, our lives and our friends both new and old, distant and close. We get so busy in our work and our lives, that it’s so easy to focus on the troubles ahead and forget the blessings we’ve blindly walked past. I know I’ve tripped over, and cursed, something that I’m amazingly lucky to have. Like Legos on the floor, in the dark, left by the kids.
Rather than curse the Lego, or the kids who left them. How about the fact that I have wonderful and loving kids with money and time to play with Legos.
Whether you are at Angie’s restaurant today participating in her annual free Thanksgiving dinner (Hi Angie, you are a rock star!), stressing over an overly dry stuffing with in-laws pouring in, or even where we were last year for Thanksgiving (yeah, we didn’t suffer a bit last year), remember that the time you spend worrying is wasted. The time spent giving thanks for your many blessings adds to your life.
At Ninja Cow Farm, we are thankful for all of you. Our customers, our friends, and our family. We’ve had a great time in 2016 and we have even more in store for 2017.
Now if I can just get through Christmas and New Years without murdering somebody…. (Oh yeah, be thankful) It’s hard to take your own advice sometimes.
And just to put all this in perspective. I’d like to share something just sent to me from someone in the Civil Air Patrol. It’s from General George Washington, our first President.
By the President of the United States of America, a 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 favor, able interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled 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 trangressions; 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 third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
Go. Washington