Words to live by (Special edition).

I have traditionally posted "Words to live by" on Monday mornings, but the occassion of Thanksgiving requires that I post a special edition one:

"Tomorrow being the day set apart by the Honorable Congress for public Thanksgiving and Praise; and duty calling us devoutly to express our grateful acknowledgments to God for the manifold blessings he has granted us, the General... earnestly exhorts, all officers and soldiers, whose absence is not indispensably necessary, to attend with reverence the solemnities of the day."

- George Washington (December 17, 1777)