Thanksgiving is a way of life for Christians. Did you know that Eucharist comes from the Greek for Thanksgiving? Here is one of my favorite prayers of thanksgiving (found on page 836 of the Prayer Book; check out all the lovely prayers that begin on page 814).
Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you have done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love.
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This article lists several children's books from the Native American perspective, to help us broaden our perspective on that first Thanksgiving.
... is hard to "teach." As parents, we specialize in answering difficult questions. So we might think we're doing a less-than-awesome job when we can't answer our child(ren)'s questions, or when we take the high road in the Escalate the Question olympics. But the truth is, we don't know. We don't know where "heaven" is or what it looks like. We can't explain the biology or the physics of resurrection. But we believe in it. We believe in it because everything we know to be true about God is so resurrection-y. Not everything we've been "taught" about God, but everything we know to be true: the Bible story that speaks straight to our heart, the forgiveness we've experienced (or want to), the connection to God we experience in worship. I wonder ... could the best answer we could possibly give be, "I don't know, but I believe"?
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