This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. – Psalm 118:24
Just this week, I saw a poster advertising the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The colorful float pictured took me back to a time when I wasn’t the one preparing the Thanksgiving feast. I was just a child showing up at the “kid table” to enjoy the fruits of everyone else’s labors. Oh… how wonderful.
How many of you grew up watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade? I remember starting to watch it at home, getting in the car for the long drive to my grandparents’ house, then walking in their front door to watch the final hour or so. I knew back then that this parade was super long and elaborate.
Did you know the parade was started in 1924 by first-generation European immigrants working at Macy’s department store in New York City? They desired to celebrate Thanksgiving in America with a similar festive flare that they had learned in Europe.
Today, 3.5 million people line the 2.65 mile parade route to watch the marching bands, festive floats, and big balloons with cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat. Of course Santa Claus is always the last in line, waving to screaming children as he has for ninety-two years.
Like the millions of Americans standing in awe of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, we too can stand in awe of what God has done and will continue to do in our nation. We are a blessed country!
We enjoy freedom of speech and freedom of religion. We have clean water, electricity, city parks, good schools, paved roads, and police officers, firefighters, and EMTs securing our safety day and night. Regardless of our differences, we all benefit immensely from living in this great nation.
Be proud to be an American this Thanksgiving. Stand unified as God’s children rejoicing today in one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for ALL!
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