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On this Sunday of Christ the King, we are also just four days away from our national observance of Thanksgiving. Since I, personally, can never find any helps or starters for preaching on that day, I'm taking the liberty of sharing an example I employed last Thanksgiving. With a little imagination, it could also be adapted for this liturgical festival, Christ the King.
Every year the federal government prints office calendars for the upcoming year. In 1972, someone made a colossal mistake on the calendars for 1973. The mistake had to do with Thanksgiving Day -- 1973.
The calendar designated November 29th as the holiday, but that was not correct. It should have been when it always is -- by presidential proclamation -- the fourth Thursday in November. In that year it would have been November 22nd, and not the 29th, as the calendar stated.
Rather than destroy the 1,000,000 calendars that had already been printed, the General Services Administration decided to simply attach a correction to each of the calendars and let it go at that. It was a very practical decision, but the correction they attached spoke volumes!
It read: "Please excuse, but we're giving thanks on the wrong day this year. It's November 22nd."
It doesn't take a degree in theology to get the horrible "religion" behind that kind of thanksgiving -- giving thanks by the calendar. Thanksgiving is a whole way of life. It is an attitude of the heart.
-- Schroeder
On this Sunday of Christ the King, we are also just four days away from our national observance of Thanksgiving. Since I, personally, can never find any helps or starters for preaching on that day, I'm taking the liberty of sharing an example I employed last Thanksgiving. With a little imagination, it could also be adapted for this liturgical festival, Christ the King.
Every year the federal government prints office calendars for the upcoming year. In 1972, someone made a colossal mistake on the calendars for 1973. The mistake had to do with Thanksgiving Day -- 1973.
The calendar designated November 29th as the holiday, but that was not correct. It should have been when it always is -- by presidential proclamation -- the fourth Thursday in November. In that year it would have been November 22nd, and not the 29th, as the calendar stated.
Rather than destroy the 1,000,000 calendars that had already been printed, the General Services Administration decided to simply attach a correction to each of the calendars and let it go at that. It was a very practical decision, but the correction they attached spoke volumes!
It read: "Please excuse, but we're giving thanks on the wrong day this year. It's November 22nd."
It doesn't take a degree in theology to get the horrible "religion" behind that kind of thanksgiving -- giving thanks by the calendar. Thanksgiving is a whole way of life. It is an attitude of the heart.
-- Schroeder
