Curbing the Blight in our Modern Society
Giving thanks isn’t the trendiest thing in today’s society, but it is a critical human virtue.
In the United States, Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday in November, serves as a practical reminder to remember this virtue. It’s also a nice excuse to eat a tremendous amount of food including the recurrent tom turkey. We observe Thanksgiving as a remembrance of the pilgrims landing in New England and the bounties of a New World.
A modern spiritual leader of our day has said:
"We are truly a blessed people who live in a marvelous time in the earth’s history and who enjoy a magnificent land overflowing with privileges and opportunities. . . . For all this and much more we should be grateful."
The chanc
e to go out into the splendid out-of-doors and wet a line now and again is something to be grateful for. It has been that way for ages. Wilford Woodruff, an American frontiersman and quite possibly the first to carry a bamboo fly rod west of the Mississippi, said after an outing on English streams in the early 1840s: "I was much gratifyed with this days fishing." [sic]
I hope we all take the opportunity to recall the blessing of our land and take a moment to give thanks for what we have. Happy Thanksgiving!
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