{"id":1616,"date":"2025-11-17T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:21:09","slug":"happy-be-grateful-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BE GRATEFUL DAY!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was 1621 when the Wampanoag and the Plymoth colonists spent 3 days together – a celebration that did not likely include Turkey or pumpkin pie, but did include lots of deer meat and other foods + the giving of thanks.\u00a0 It had been a rough year for the colonists.\u00a0 They were very grateful to have survived and were also grateful to the help given by the Wampanoag.<\/p>\n

However, Thanksgiving did not become a national holiday until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln set aside the last Thurday of the month as a time of gratitude.\u00a0 (Interesting side note – President Franklin Roosevelt tried to change the date and make it earlier in order to stimulate the economy with more Christmas shopping, but failed)<\/p>\n

It is good to set aside a day to focus on our blessings, but it is a better practice to try and assimilate gratefulness into our\u00a0 every-day life.\u00a0 There are many health benefits!\u00a0 Better sleep, lowering of blood pressure, a stronger immune system, more stable glucose levels have all been associated with a thankful heart according to studies.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So I wish you all a most Happy Thanksgiving.\u00a0 But I wish you all, even more, the habit of cultivating a grateful heart!\u00a0 No matter what position one finds themself in, there is always SOMETHING to be grateful for.\u00a0 Perhaps in the year ahead make a list….write it down…every day add something new to the list that you are grateful for!\u00a0 I did this once, and it really helped me improve my frame of mind.\u00a0 When forced to write down new items to be thankful for every day, I discovered that there were\u00a0 many things I took for granted.\u00a0 \u00a0It definitely helped to change my outlook, so I think I will plan to do it again in 2026.<\/p>\n

‘Count your blessings, name them one by one.\u00a0 Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.”<\/p>\n

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was 1621 when the Wampanoag and the Plymoth colonists spent 3 days together – a celebration that did not likely include Turkey or pumpkin pie, but did include lots of deer meat and other foods + the giving of thanks.\u00a0 It had been a rough year for the colonists.\u00a0 They were very grateful to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WySj-q4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}