By Jimmy Reed ——Bio and Archives--November 6, 2017
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“No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most-high God, Who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy … I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens … to observe the last Thursday of November … as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father…. “And I recommend … that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular … blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners … in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged and fervently implore the interposition of the almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.”While we Americans should enjoy being with loved ones and eating delicious food on Thanksgiving Day, we must not neglect to kneel and thank the one true God of the universe for freedom: a blessing above all others.
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Jimmy Reed is an Oxford, Mississippi resident, Ole Miss and Delta State University alumnus, Vietnam Era Army Veteran, former Mississippi Delta cotton farmer and ginner, author, and retired college teacher.
This story is a selection from Jimmy Reed’s latest book, entitled The Jaybird Tales.
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