Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God, our Father, and Jesus Christ. Welcome to my blog! I hope the thoughts you find here will encourage you and inspire you to diligently seek God’s Kingdom.
We are in the month of November. In this, what Frederick Haynes calls “these dis-United States,” we as a nation tend to celebrate what we now call Thanksgiving. The whitewashed version is that we are commemorating the providence of God to early settlers who have come from Europe to these shores and celebrate God’s provision for them and their progeny. What we are really celebrating is hegemony, murder, and cheating of indigenous people, in order to take what did not and does belong to these now white Americans. For our purposes, we take the time to celebrate how God has continuously provided for us as African American survivors of marginalization, oppression, and racism by the occident in times past and today. The scriptures give us so many examples of text of actual thanksgiving, and I thought I would share some of them with you.
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
(1 Chronicles 16:34 KJV)
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
(Psalm 100:4-5 KJV)
O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
(Psalm 107:1 KJV)
And you will say in that day: Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known his deeds among the nations; proclaim that his name is exalted.
(Isaiah 12:4 NRSV)
Beloved, while we have no reason to engage in the celebration of America’s need to rewrite history and celebrate the lie that is the American construct of truth, we do owe our God praise and worship for his mighty acts of sustaining us in the face of American hegemony. For this, we should give thanks. In that light, I say to you all, even though we are a week away, Happy Thanksgiving.
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Yours Because I am His,
Leo Colon, D.Min., M.Div.,
In His Presence Family Worship Center
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