Thanksgiving Day

Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices; Who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.

O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts and blessèd peace to cheer us; And keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed; And free us from all ills, in this world and the next!

All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given; The Son and Him Who reigns with Them in highest Heaven; The one eternal God, whom earth and Heaven adore; For thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.

To read about this hymn, and hear it, click this link: www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/n/o/nowthank.htm

"The First Thanksgiving", reproduction of an oil painting by J.L.G. Ferris, early 20th century. History tells us that the first Thanksgiving Day was in 1621 in Massachusetts.