Thanksgiving Blessings

On the first Thanksgiving the settlers who had endured so much, but triumphantly survived, and even had a harvest (with much help from their neighbors, the Native Americans), gave thanks with a communal meal.
We give thanks when we are grateful—when we feel blessed.

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A Rose By Any Other Name

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet;” is said by Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Our names do tend to define us, or at least present us to others. Names can be understood as a kind of word portrait of who we are.

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