The Thanksgiving of Habakkuk For 389 years the United States of America has set aside one day to give thanks to God, creator of heaven and earth, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and Giver of His Holy Spirit, for His gracious sustaining of us all 364 days that preceded. When the Pilgrims began this tradition it was not meant to be greater than their worship, (as it has become) but an outpouring of their worship a way to express the gratitude and love for our God and a celebration of Him, through our Lord Jesus Christ. It included food, but much more it included praise and song and dance. There was family and friends both old and new, but much more there was an inward love and praise of our Father and through our Lord Jesus Christ that overflowed into the outward celebration. This was commanded of us in Ephesians 5:20 (KJV) Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; However so...