Judy and I have just spent this last year touring a large segment of the United States and Canada. We spent last Thanksgiving with our son’s family in Gilroy California. Since then we have made dozens of new friends, toured sixteen states and ten provinces, visited countless waterfalls and walked in the icky woods. We have hiked to the bottom of canyons and to the top of mountains. We have dipped our toes in the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. We have done this all from the comfort of our home on wheels. Every time we have needed fuel there has been a supply immediately at hand. Whenever we needed to stock up on groceries there has been a well stocked grocery store close by. We keep in touch with our family and friends through the internet and our cell phone.

When you stop and think what our ancestors went through to get us to this moment in history it simply boggles the mind. When that early colony under Myles Standish gathered in their harvest and were assured that they would have enough food to simply make it through the winter, they were thankful and prepared a feast to celebrate the occasion.

Will you join Judy and me this Thanksgiving as we pause and think about all there is to be thankful for in this great country of ours?

First we are thankful for the peaceful, open and orderly society that we live in. We do not live in fear of a vigilante group breaking down our door in the middle of the night, we have a system of law and order that gives each of us due process.

Second we are thankful for the food we eat. We have food enough and more. There is a nearly infinite variety displayed in stores in every neighborhood. This is all delivered through a very efficient network of farms, packing plants and warehouses. These are all connected by an incredible network of trucks and trains operating on so many miles of roads and rails that not one of us could travel all of them in one lifetime.

Third we are thankful for the freedoms we enjoy. With very few exceptions we are free to travel anywhere within this great country and its neighboring countries. We do this without fear of being stopped along the route by armed militia demanding bribes and ransoms for safe passage. We have freedom to worship our Lord and Savior freely and openly. We are welcomed into churches our own and other denominations with open arms and Christian friendship.

And finally lets us all be thankful for our government and our leaders; Our representative form of government where we have the right to help choose our leaders and more importantly to vote them out of office if they do not represent us properly.

Finally we are thankful for our family and for all of our friends spread out all across this great land. May you all have a very wonderful Thanksgiving Day celebration.

With Love, Gary and Judy from Savannah Georgia.