I received a call from the president of the Holladay, Utah Rotary club. She asked me to come speak about my book on November 18th. Because it will be right before Thanksgiving, she asked me to tie my book into Thanksgiving. I told her I would try and after I hung up the phone I laid my head on my desk and thought - how am I going to tell people to be thankful for a penny? I started Googling Thanksgiving and to my great surprise I found a way to connect it all! (I love Google!)
Did you know that the person who inspired the first American penny - also declared that the last Thursday of November would be Thanksgiving, making it a national holiday? That's right - president Abraham Lincoln, in the midst of the civil war and other trials, came out with the Thanksgiving proclamation on October 3, 1863. He said people had forgotten God, who had preserved them in peace, strengthened them and given them so many blessings. He invited American citizens to solemnly, reverently and gratefully to acknowledge God with one heart and one voice with him.
I love President Lincoln. The more I learn about him, the more I am grateful for him and the courage he had to stand up and make a difference.
I definitely will look at Thanksgiving differently this year! I'm sad I won't be spending it with my extended family, but I am excited that I can start new traditions with my own little family.
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