J said (November 28, 2024):

This is a strange thanksgiving for me because I am in danger of death. Presently, I am on 2 liters of 02. I have 60-70% lung damage and this past summer I suffered a collapsed lung twice along with 3 infections. I can die at any time from infection or asthma attack.

My entire family is dead, and they're trying to take away my inherited home because I can't afford to pay property taxes. I live in a evil area where people are in constant fear of crime, government and each other. It's sort of like being in hell. I remember one Christmas Eve when carolers from a local college were going door-to-door singing Christmas songs and how several "neighbors" opened their doors and turned up their $5,000 home theater systems to drown out the carolers and made them leave. I was healthy then and went outside and made an audio recording of the incident and sent it out in emails. I believe William Gheen of Alipac answered and thought that was pretty lousy. Yet these were white people in middle class homes doing this evil.

I haven't done anything to harm anyone other than declare truth as best as I am able, yet I don't have a single invite for Thanksgiving. Many of my friends are dead and the ones living are not really friends.

To be alone with no one is one of the most evil things there is.

Where paganism rules the people have no hearts and no mercy. They are frozen souls who are incapable of human love.

Still there is something to be thankful for--that God will provide a way to defeat the evil that is ripping our souls and world apart.

J

RH said (November 28, 2024):

We are having the traditional American Thanksgiving dinner with family and friends today. I am grateful for all to come and eat at our table.

I am grateful we were asked, and we were able to share a bag of groceries with our Church's food shelf this week as well.

Our day-to-day needs are being met and for that I am very grateful. We saved and invested for retirement, and it was not always easy nor perfect in the end result but so far so good.

I have learned to bless my enemies! (Unfortunately, I have a few because I believe in law and order and each of us is to be treated the same under the Law.)

I am very grateful that I love to read and by reading I have been taught much.

I am grateful for websites like yours to gain insight in how the world really operates.

God bless all of us on this day of Thanksgiving.

JM said (November 28, 2024):

People in the west have had far too much for far too long henry a catastorphy for them is when the lawnmower isnt fixed by the week end they will blow a fuse over that. The amount of stuff they buy on impulse and throw out again is shocking. Thats selfish brits all over.

DD said (November 28, 2024):

Grateful today!

Grateful for Our Creator's gift that, every moment, gives us the choice to be so.

Grateful for His Crucible that from within I have been heated thru and thru... and The Forge that has rendered me hammered, cleansed, now sober, renewed and adopted by The Father and Jesus Christ. Salt and Light .. and on the proper path... to Celestial City. [Witnessing and Proclaimage]

I relate to John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress more than I can put in words, Henry.

Thank you for my [and countless others'] every-day / commencing / go-to website to "check in" to the madness surrounding us... just like Daniel was in the lion's [Satan's] den.

The War is on and it's against Sin.
That is simply the way it has always been.

Christine said (November 28, 2024):

Messiah came 2,000 years ago and offered mankind a peaceful utopia.

But we have consistently rejected it.

We don't like obeying simple instructions, because it interferes with our pleasures.

And so, we were placed in the hands of Antichrist (i.e. the kabbalists of Judaism) instead.

And we have al helped them engineer waht is stated in the Zohar in order to bring forth their fantasy character "Moschiach" who does not exist.

Precisely as propheised, evil has increased and increased until now, the world is the lying Satanic cess pit the kabbalists were instructed to create in the Zohar (i.e. the curse of Zechariah 5).


The Messianic Era - which is now over - was a time of punishment and Judgement, not peace and happiness.

Isaiah 2:4 is describing the spiritual peace of the nation of Christianity, as it laboured in the vineyard of God.

There is no peace unto the wicked.

The Final Judgement is coming, Henry.

G said (November 28, 2024):

Well Henry, since you asked... One thing I'm grateful for is the fact that more people are becoming vegetarian. Some for health reasons, some for environmental reasons, and some, like myself, simply because we love animals and cannot involve ourselves in the suffering they endure. Some of us even view them as healers and teachers. Too bad the UN seems to be planning on using laws, that is to say, force to advance this idea. Folks must come to this only of their own will, and intelligence, and heart.

Anyhow, you wrote: "This survival instinct is mirrored by all people no matter their material status." I'd have to extend that survival sentiment to all creatures. Ain't never met a one that didn't want to live. They all want to survive, even thrive and feel safe.

Here are a few quotes from Gandhi:

"It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures."

"One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals."

"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."

A Happy Thanksgiving to ALL!!!

PS: I know you like to cook. Here's a recipe you might want to one day try:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evOA_Jx43mg

JJ said (November 22, 2018):

The reason we find it hard to feel gratitude is that, first of all, we have lost touch of the fact that we are sinners who only live by God's mercy and grace. Jesus Christ intercedes for us moment by moment otherwise we would be wiped out.

Secondly, those of us born in recent years fail to understand what life was like pre-socialism and government deficits. Life was hard back then. If you needed care or help and your family was not there for you, you were out on the street. If you were sick, you had to pay the doctor out of your own pocket. Years ago people lived in houses without electricity and plumbing unless they could afford it. People prayed much more years ago because they needed to.

Thirdly, we are not thankful because we ignore everyday threats that can ruin our lives such as unjust lawsuits and accusations. God does protect us when we are not aware of such. God watches over us when we drive, when we walk across streets, when we converse with feminists who have daggers and we don't know that such a person is searching for a lawsuit that will make them a hero. God keeps us because if His eye is on the sparrow, how much more will His eyes be on us. We are His children.

George said (November 22, 2018):

Simple rule for being thankful: "Look down, not up." Besides, those that you imagine to be more fortunate than yourself are often very miserable, because they look up, not down.

Essel said (November 22, 2018):

"... because the Illuminati have stolen God." That it is true and well said!
But as with every bad move we make, it's almost always with our mysterious collaboration. For we find some miserable interest in the operation.
The serpent did the worst of the bad things to Eve, but she consented because he was able to flatter his pride.
That is why the privation of God, like that of a true Pope and an authentic Authority (the Church is currently overshadowed) is a deserved punishment. The Illuminati are not all-powerful and act only within the limits permitted by God.

Deo Patri sit glória,

Eiúsque soli Fílio,

Cum Spíritu Paráclito,

Et nunc, et in perpetuum. Amen. (Hymn taken from the Prime Office of the Roman Breviary.)

Bruce said (November 22, 2018):

Today (Wednesday) was my last day of work before enjoying a four day weekend holiday. We were asked by our supervisors to write on a post a note what we were thankful for. I wrote life itself and I mean that sincerely.

When I awaken everyday to find myself alive and sometimes well, and the sometimes not; I am thankful indeed to spend that day accomplishing something worthwhile. At the moment I am thankful for that four day holiday weekend to stay in the in the safety of my home away from the Black Friday weekend madness where gratitude is nowhere to be found. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your readers.

JG said (November 22, 2018):

Don't mean to be a scrooge here but holidays in America aren't what they once were and for good reason.
Thanksgiving and Christmas were never meant to have a profit motive attached to them like they do now.

The abundance of wealth in America today was nonexistent for the Pilgrims who were literally carving out an existence in the America of the early 1600's. Also, the Pilgrims may have been far more gratefull than a lot of the prosperous Americans we have today. Is it a wonder that those who have the least seem to be the most grateful?

The Thanksgiving and Christmas that was the year before often seems better than the one you have now because more of it's true meaning has been lost year to year and because we are decaying as a nation. And, larger parades and fancier meals can never fill that void.

Mike said (November 23, 2017):

If people were truly grateful it would collapse the developed world economies overnight.

I guess that's why we're bombarded with mind control advertising to maintain this fetishistic desire for more stuff.

And be ye thankful. 1Tim.6:8-10 Colossians 3:12-15

Deirdre said (November 23, 2017):

I'm thankful for all your hard work and research, time spent posting things on your website! I am thankful that my FATHER in JESUS said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." Praise JESUS! I don't wait till Thanksgiving to give my FATHER thanks for all HE has done for me. All HE has brought me through and all HE has taught me! Gratitude is something I practice, even if it is finding something to be thankful about in my most painful times.
Peace,

Robert K said (November 25, 2016):

Why should we feel gratitude when, as we are told incessantly, "There's no free lunch"? In other words, nothing in this life can come to us as a gift. We must expect to have to earn everything we get.

This is the most arrogant, false, abominable proposition ever devised by the demons among us. No primitive people has been so foolish as to advance it: they knew better because they were in touch with the real things of earth. It took the mad abstractionists--Marxists, Fabian Socialists, Money Men, etc.--to construct a matrix of perverse statistics that disarmed ordinary people against this assault on their common sense.

If I look at everything in my life, patently it has virtually all come to me freely, as a gift. Air is just there for me to breathe, water to drink, the abundance inherent in nature to eat, etc. Some power has given me a bunch of organs that not only perform miracles but work together to keep me alive. And what is this "being alive": I can hardly claim responsibility for that.

I have at my disposal a most fantastic array of technologies and products that have been inherited from previous generations. I never invented the wheel or the silicon chip, yet I have use of them.

I have the love of my family and friends, and my dog if I have one; I would be shattered to learn that this love had to be "earned" in accordance with some puritanical law of reciprocity. I have also freely had the benefit of the Incarnation that showed me my purpose and how I have been created to relate to others.

People do not feel gratitude as they should because they see things disconnected and out of proportion. They have had their egos stoked by delusions about their personal achievements and independence. If you took out of their lives everything to which they have contributed absolutely nothing, then they would be reduced to lifeless nonentities.

George said (November 25, 2016):

Another great and timely article.

Why do we find it hard to feel gratitude?

I suspect it is because we don't reflect enough about our precarious and very temporary situation
on this planet. This is likely due to our "not having enough time", being "too busy".

This in turn is most probably due to our ever-increasing paced "treadmill" geared by, primarily, the TV. (which
tells us, especially at this time frame, to go shopping, what to buy, what to do etc).

I find that those that fill the malls are shopping for happiness, acceptability, and find none.
It may well be that they are trying to fill the emptiness inside them, created by the false lifestyle foisted on us all.