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Let’s talk turkey. This week we celebrated Thanksgiving and of course turkey has become central to the whole event which is about gathering everyone together as a family and enjoying an amazing meal together… of turkey.

How did turkey become such an integral part of Thanksgiving? Of course, the first Thanksgiving was held in November 1621 when the pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians gathered for a harvest celebration feast and to watch football. That last part has not been verified by historians, but rumor has it that the Redskins were playing the Chiefs.

Turkey is indigenous to North America and Benjamin Franklin claimed that this made the turkey a more suitable national bird for the United States than the Bald Eagle. That idea got stuffed however, as the image of a turkey on our presidential seal wasn’t inspiring; it may have been more accurate, however.

What’s interesting is that the word for the turkey in Hebrew – Hodu - is the same word for giving thanks. That connection is merely coincidental, but the idea of giving thanks has a long history in Israel; it goes all the way back to the book of Leviticus, a book that instructed Israel in regards to their relationship to God.

God wanted the giving of thanks to Him to be an integral and significant part of their relationship to Him. God had a unique relationship to Israel, distinct from all the other nations of the world, but the distinction also had to be personal. God wanted each of them to have a relationship to Him that included having a heart that was thankful to God for all that He had done for each of them personally.

In the same way, we should also recognize that God wants us to understand the significance of giving thanks with a grateful heart for all that God has done for us.

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