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Dear Friends and Neighbors,
I want to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! I am very much looking forward to having all of our girls home and gathering with family to give thanks for the many blessings we have been given this past year.
One of our family's favorite traditions is to read one of the Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations each year before we pray and eat. This year, we will read the very first Thanksgiving Proclamation, issued by President George Washington on October 3, 1789, declaring the first Thanksgiving Holiday to be held on November 26, 1789. President Washington issued the first Thanksgiving Proclamation to mark the end of Revolutionary War and the ratification of the new constitution.
I highly recommend this and other gratitude traditions to you and your family! For a few years we also kept a gratitude journal on the counter, where we would all write down whatever we found to be grateful for each day. At the end of the year, we had a beautiful record of the many blessings – big and small - we had all experienced that year.
You can find George Washington’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation linked here. I hope you and your family have a wonderful time eating great food, enjoying each other’s company and giving thanks to God for His many gifts and faithfulness in our lives.
I will be giving thanks for all you, my friends and neighbors in District 37A, and for the privilege to serve our amazing district!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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