Anyone desiring to gather for worship on the eve of Thanksgiving is invited to join us here at Fort Collins First United Methodist for a simple service of praise and thanksgiving aimed at helping us enter the Thanksgiving holiday with an awareness of the gifts of God in our lives. I'm focusing the message on the hopes and dreams the colonists AND the native Americans may have had as they prepared for and celebrated that first Thanksgiving feast.
It is sad that today we don't have a more realistic sense of what the Thanksgiving holiday probably means to the descendants of those who inhabited this land long before our European ancestors moved across the Atlantic and "took over". And while we can't undo the course of history over the past 4 centuries or so, we can offer thanksgiving with a hope for and a commitment to working for the kind of community that enabled the survival of those early colonists so long ago. We can also be in prayer for the healing of the divisions in our land that continue to this day, among many people groups.
If you have any thoughts about the message this Wednesday evening, please send them along. We'll be using Deuteronomy 30:11-14 and v. 19 to ground the message Biblically.
God's blessings to you this week,
Steve
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