An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving - DVD –
Simone Ball, 12/14/2009Beware: The title of this movie is quite misleading.
I had hoped to watch (I hate to put it so simply) an "old fashioned Thanksgiving" story, something nostalgic that would bring to mind early American days (and maybe some references to Christian values ??).
For one, there is no mention of Jesus Christ or salvation in any way. It's the classic joke: the only time a Bible is pulled out pertains to a letter that was kept in the family Bible.
For two, the story has very little to do with Thanksgiving at all (it's set at that time of the year). My husband called it a soap opera. Three generations of women are having a lot of emotional fights about their past and their future.
It might be some people's cup of tea, but as long as the title remains the same, I am afraid people are bound to be disappointed by it.
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving - DVD –
Marisol Sosa, 10/28/2009NATIONAL DAY OF THANKSGIVING
On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a formal proclamation,
passed by an Act of Congress, initiating the first annual National Day of Thanksgiving:
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States,
and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday
of November next as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth
in the heavens....[it is] announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord (Psalm 33:12)...It has seemed to me fit and proper
that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and
one voice, by the whole American people.
Reference: America's God & Country Encyclopedia of Quotations by William J. Federer, Page 385.
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