Text: Edgar Cayce on Thanksgiving As it may be truly said, - of all the days for MAN'S opportunity, of man's making, of man's concern - TRULY Thanksgiving should be nearer and dearer to the hearts of those who are appreciative of Life and its opportunities, under ANY experience! For remember, it was instituted not under plenty but under needs. What is the need then of man in this day of disturbed mind, of anxieties? That ye may reconsecrate, rededicate - each of you - thy heart, thy body, thy purpose, to the LIVING God! This is the message then that should be to all. Let this day of Thanksgiving be not only that wherein to enjoy that which may satiate the body, that which may make for the gratifying of appetites of the body, but that day when each of you may give thanks to God for BEING alive - with the opportunities to raise thy voice in prayer, in praise, in thanksgiving for the love He hath shown, that He showers upon thee day by day! And as ye do this - in the SPIRIT of love, in the spirit of truth, of patience, of longsuffering - ye will receive that awareness of His closeness to thee. And this will bring you to the greater knowledge, the greater understanding of what He would have thee do. Let thy life, thy experience then, be not without purpose. [ ... ] Then, as ye give thanks, as ye give praise to thy friends for kindnesses, for gentlenesses, for those things that make thy experience more bearable in a cruel world - under circumstances oft where a troubled heart is made lighter - how much greater in this day, then, that is set aside by thy laws, by the judgments of thy governors and of thy president - how much MORE ye would give thanks to God! For it is in Him indeed that ye live, that ye move and have thy being. Let thy heart then be glad. And as has been indicated, let each raise his voice in thanksgiving for ALL that has, that may come to pass in the experience of each SOUL that prays, "THY WILL, O GOD, BE DONE IN ME - NOW. NOT AS I WILL, BUT AS THOU WOULD HAVE ME GO." Pray that peace may be in the minds and hearts of those who direct the destiny of the many, throughout the world. For they are NOT in power of THEMSELVES, but that YE - too - may learn a lesson to DO, and to seek to do, the will of thy Father; and not to do that which is IN direct contradiction to that of praise to thy Lord, thy God. Keep then that Day in praise, in thanksgiving, in such ways, such a manner that ye show to thy conscience that what ye worship as thy God is aware of THY appreciation of LIFE! Cayce (3976-21)

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