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Thanksgiving Message
 
Thanksgiving is coming!   When I think of  Thanksgiving, I think of Pilgrims, Native Americans,  turkey (with fixings)  pies, and family.   It is a celebration, and when appropriately  observed, it has that sense  humility as we ponder all that has come to  us.  The legend is that the Pilgrims  celebrated their first harvest  in Plymouth by gathering to offer thanks to God  for all they had  received.

I wonder how many of us realize what the Pilgrims  had been  through in that first year in the New World.  They had left  Europe on creaky wooden  ships, bound for a place they had never seen and  could only imagine.   The trip was stormy and dangerous.    Not all completed the journey.   They landed in a place where the soil  was rocky and hard to till.  They had to hunt for food with   muskets.  With bare hands and few  tools, they built rude houses. Worst of all, they suffered from disease which  killed half of them.   After all of  this, they took time to thank God with grateful  hearts. 
 
    
The deeper meaning of  Thanksgiving is not so much thanking God for the  bounty of our  lives.  Rather it is  learning to live our lives with grateful hearts  no matter what our  circumstances.  To have a grateful  heart is  to be open to all that life offers, the good, the bad, the beautiful,  the  ugly, the happy and the sad. To have a grateful heart is a way of being in the world; it is not an act we must perform.  Life, itself, is the gift and  being able  to live that gift in a community of caring folks is a  blessing.  May we observe this Thanksgiving with open, loving, and  grateful hearts,  and may we offer a prayer for this community at Fisk  Memorial United Methodist Church that it might continue to be a blessed  communion.  
  
Happy  Thanksgiving!     
 
                                  Rev. Rick  Black

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Fisk Memorial United Methodist Church
106 Walnut Street
Natick, MA 01760
508-653-1674 
fiskoffice@fiskumc.org

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