The time for thanks has come every November in America, and this time we are especially grateful for so much. You can go and make a list of all our blessings in America.
We have so many freedoms and liberties like no other nation in the whole wide world. We have so much to be grateful for. The list is long.
We give thanks to God for our health, family, job and church; freedom to worship; freedom to serve our country; freedom to express our beliefs; freedom to be of help and service to our community social services; freedom to show compassion to the elderly, handicapped and struggling; freedom to give love to grandchildren and neighbors; freedom to look at the stars at night and know that there is a magnificent Creator of them; freedom to communicate our deepest feelings for patriotism, valor, courage and inalienable rights to pursue life and liberty and happiness; freedom to go forth and be our best selves for the pursuit of what is noble and honorable and sacred; and freedom to love as God so planned for us to live in His love.
November 2009 in Augusta, Richmond county and the CSRA also is a time to thank God for our leaders and elected officials and representatives in Congress; Georgia senate and representatives; church leaders, community servants and business leaders; and others who care so much to make Augusta a grand place to live and raise a family and worship our God.
November 2009 in Augusta and surrounding areas is a very proper time to give thanks for our schools, teachers, principals, school boards and staff, administrators, bus drivers, parents, students and those who care about the value of an education.
November 2009 in Augusta is a grand place and time to share our thanksgiving with family, friends, neighbors and church members who are there for us in good times and bad, sickness and health and during the times we feel God's blessings most keenly.
Yes, Augusta is a good place -- a good city and a good place to live our freedoms in the United States of America. We cannot take anything for granted. We treasure our land and our history of working hard for the liberties we have and wish to keep intact.
God bless America this month of November, as we are thankful for it all.
The Rev. Michael Lubinsky, Augusta
(The writer is parochial vicar of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Augusta.)
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Thanksgiving is NOT a religious holiday....
Then who are you thanking if it's not a religious holiday?
He gives thanks for the freedom to love to grandchildren (?) and neighbors, but not surprisingly omits the freedom to love someone of the same sex.
Even Thanksgiving creates a dispute - how sad!
Why don't we just let everyone be thankful for what they have or believe in - there has to be a peaceful day somewhere in this year - let us hope Christmas (MERRY CHRISTMAS) does not cause another huge debate.
Wonder why the pilgrims settled in America? Some people just can't leave well enough alone. I pity those. God bless us all and most of all our soldiers - we have to thank them for our freedom.
Thanksgiving may not be a religious holiday but even pastors and Christians have a right (thanks to our country's many freedoms) to be thankful and to express their thanks in many forms--be it silently, aloud, or in writing, as he has done in this Letter to the Editor. His idea of what he should be thankful for may be different than yours but that ability is what makes this country great. It is indeed wonderful that we can all freely express our thanks for whomever or whatever we feel thankful, including the God of our own beliefs, without fear of being hauled off to jail in the middle of the night.