WHITE HOUSE – “In 1789, just years after America’s triumph over tyranny in the Revolutionary War, President George Washington established the first National Day of Thanksgiving, declaring “the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.” Decades later, in the midst of the bloody Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln implored the Nation to join in unity for “a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” In every generation since, this spirit of reverence, trust, and gratitude has preserved our way of life and made America the strongest, greatest, and most resilient Nation the world has ever known.
From the pilgrims who settled our continent and the patriots who won our independence on the battlefield to the pioneers who tamed the west and the warriors who have preserved our freedom in distant lands, the spirit of gratitude and grit embodied by those who celebrated the first Thanksgiving more than 400 years ago have stood at the very heart of what it means to be an American.
This year, God has bestowed abundant blessings all across our land and indeed the entire world. As we give thanks to Him, we continue to advance our Nation through strong leadership and commonsense policy. As a result, the American economy is roaring back, we are making progress on lowering the cost of living, a new era of peace is sweeping around the world, our sovereignty is being swiftly restored, and the American spirit is coming back greater and more powerful than ever before.
As we prepare to celebrate 250 glorious years of American independence, this Thanksgiving, we summon the faith, resolve, and unflinching fortitude of the giants of American history who came before us. We vow to build a future that echoes their sacrifice. Above all, we offer our endless gratitude to Almighty God for His love, grace, and infinite blessings.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 27, 2025, as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage all Americans to gather, in homes and places of worship, to offer a prayer of thanks to God for our many blessings.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.”
Blessings to All!
God bless USA & President Trump & Sundance!
Thankful for CTH!
MAGA! 👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻
Enjoy and give thanks to our Lord for this truly AMERICAN holiday that we can still celecbrate.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours Sundance !! Happy Thanksgiving to All Treepers and their loved ones !!
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV
“I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonders.”
Psalms 9:1
Happy Thanksgiving To All
Enjoy this day with Family and Friends
Reach Out To anyone you know who will be alone. I have 2 guests who would be home alone
The Gift of Giving
Love to All
Slainte
Tea
Happy Tea Party, rebels!
I took the day off from work to gather at the CA state capitol in 2010 for some of the first TEA PARTY protests. What a great day it was.
I’ll put the kettle on, Gipper. – I could murder a good cuppa, right about now.
Spent yesterday in emergency with my sister after a fall. Thanks be to God for sparing more time with one of my few relatives! 🙏❤️
So thankful to God for family, our president and this magnificent nation. 🙏🤍
May each of you gathered here feel those thankful blessings! 💙
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Truly giving thank IN all things, rather than FOR things. Love it.
Happy Thanksgiving Lorrie and to all this Treehouse.
I hope your sister suffered no serious harm from her fall, Lorrie. 🥰 She must have been so thankful you were there to help her!
Thank you Lord for giving us another opportunity to give You Thanksgiving for all the blessings we have received from Your Merciful Hands. In the midst of our daily battles with each other and our governments’ problems we lay it all down to openly remember that You, God, are our Provider and always have been; that nothing is more important than our giving You all the Glory and Praise as our Creator and Provider; That our humility and seeking of Your Face is what You Desire to heal our land and forgive us for our pridefulness when it is all about You and You alone.
Lord Jesus, we ask for Your Forgiveness for all we have done to offend You. Change our hearts so they are more like Your Heart. And let your Goodness continue to bless this great land of America dedicated to You by Godly men and women who suffered greatly, and who began the walk of those from many generations after who desired to give their best, even their very lives, to bless You and this beloved land.
We Bless Your Holy Name and humbly ask for continued blessings today for each American who loves this dear land of the United States of America, in the Merciful Name of Jesus Christ we pray~
💯 ^^^ Well said sister!
Beautiful!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Twenty-SEVENTH day of November, 2025 rather than twenty-FIFTH day of November, 2025.
Someone made an error.
He declared the 27th the day of Thanksgiving correctly. He signed the statement on the 25th.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Perfect! My birthday was the 25th and now today we celebrate God’s blessings. Amen!
He signed it on the 25th to make it so on the 27th.
A very thoughtful Thanksgiving this year to all of you, Sundance and your wonderful team.
Thank you for making this Treehouse for us.
Giving Thanks to our President and his team for giving us a country that will be great again if we all work together.
Hope the two guardsmen will be ok and their families whole.
Happy Thanksgiving to my family for keeping us together.
1 Corinthians 2
9 but just as it is written [in Scripture],
“Things which the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard,
And which have not entered the heart of man,
All that God has prepared for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, who obey Him, and who gratefully recognize the benefits that He has bestowed].”
Thank You, Father!
One of my go to verses. Thx Gipper!
Tissue needed:
“As we prepare to celebrate 250 glorious years of American independence, this Thanksgiving, we summon the faith, resolve, and unflinching fortitude of the giants of American history who came before us. We vow to build a future that echoes their sacrifice. Above all, we offer our endless gratitude to Almighty God for His love, grace, and infinite blessings.”
Amen
Much love and prayers to all.
T
For all of us wherever we may be…
A Bless-ed Thanksgiving I pray 🙏🏻💕
Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give Thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and lovingkindness to us and to all men. We bless Thee for our creation, our preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech Thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful; and that we show forth our praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before Thee in holiness and righteousness all our days; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.
~from The Book of Common Prayer
May God give us peace and unity. Amen..
Almighty Father, you have given us, those who value Liberty over Tyranny, the opportunity to show the world through our example that living in peace in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ, amen.
God Bless The United States Of America.
I am eternally thankful to God, and I absolutely love this country.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving, and may God Bless and keep you all!
I appreciate Sundance, and this community that he, Menagerie and the rest have built!
May all have a loving, thoughtful day of Thanksgiving and sharing.
Blessings and love to all, even those pesky trolls. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I give thanks to God for his grace that I was born into this great land with the multitudes of opportunity and freedom. I give thanks to Sundance who, almost single-handily, has awakened me from the slumber of trusting those in charge; I give thanks for my family that I have been blessed with; but most of all, I give thanks that God gave His only son to come and rescue us from ourselves….thanks be to God.
I’m Thankful I was born in America, that my ancestetors 275 years ago , prayed and fought to make it ,
” One Nation Under God”. They were persecuted from all established religions , but did not give up or give in. I thank Sundance & crew and all the Treepers for the resolve it takes and have shown. Thank you Mr. President and First Lady for your love of our county, I Thank God for my bounty and protection. Happy Happy Day on Us All.
Happy Thanksgiving.
FTA: “I would have made the sorriest excuse for a Pilgrim.”
https://kittymyersencore.blogspot.com/2015/11/pilgrims-progress.html
A blessed Thanksgiving to all.
Very nice blog, Kitty.
Thank you!
Giving thanks to our lord and savor JESUS CHRIST. Thanks,to all that have sacrifice for our country and all our people.i give thanks for all my family. I give thanks that every day I can make out my gratitude list. I give thanks that my life has purpose and meaning in JESUS CHRIST,and all the good positive changes in my life because of JESUS. Thanks to Sundance, thanks that I do believe we can over come this evil that has invaded our country and our people. THANK YOU
I am thankful I found the Treehouse 10 years ago. I am thankful I have a job, a roof over my head and food on the table. I am thankful that I am expecting my first grandchild December 19th. May God continue to bless each and every one.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
An excerpt–Rush:
“… Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments. Here is the part that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well. They were collectivists! Now, Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives.
He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace. … Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened? It didn’t work! Surprise, surprise, huh? What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation! But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years — trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it — the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild’s history lesson,” every kid gets. If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future. Here’s what he wrote: “The experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years…that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing — as if they were wiser than God,” Bradford wrote.
“For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense…that was thought injustice.” That was thought injustice. Do you hear what he was saying, ladies and gentlemen? The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford’s community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property. Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? “This had very good success,” wrote Gov. Bradford, “for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.”” …….
Rest in the Vine: Happy Thanksgiving!
Nobody could explain it like Rush. He is missed by so many. 😢
Trying not to cry this morning. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Awesome lesson in humanity.
Happy Thanksgiving Gipper.
Thanks, Hoo–same to you!
Gosh do I miss El Rushbo
the wit and wisdom of the Mayor of Realville.. (if you want to watch a video)
Rush Limbaugh on the True Story of Thanksgiving
Talent on loan from Gooodd…
God Bless America 🙏🏻 God Bless our President Trump and his family and team🙏🏻 God Bless Sundance and his family.
Thank you God for all that you do for each and everyone of us.
Amen 🙏🏻
Let us be thankful that our great land and the world has been given a reprieve from the creeping evil that was overtaking good and God. On this day we must remember how blessed we are as a country but understand we are at the beginning of this war.
Lord watch and keep our Great American President Donald J Trump and his MAGA army that we all have a blessed Thanksgiving.
Amen!
Amen, brother!
God has blessed this great land of ours. We are in a love story (John 3:16) in the midst of war. We here at CTH are fighting the good fight! The Jimbo family has been in our new lake house for exactly a year. We see God’s beauty in the lake, the mighty oaks, the deer, fox, & every other critter imaginable. We live in a historic time as followers of Jesus battle the serpent. You see it in the news each & every day. We shouldn’t be surprised. Hate & murder began as early as Cane & Able. As brothers & sisters of the Treehouse, let’s put aside all pettiness, unite behind our wonderful President, and win the battle. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, & a sound mind.” Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. The best holiday of the year for so many reasons. God Bless you all and God bless America.
Happy Thanksgiving day to all. May God bless everyone of us.
Happy Thanksgiving all! And may we always celebrate every day with the same spirit of thanksgiving for God is good and Jesus is our holy redeemer!
Even in trying times much to be thankful to God.
Imagine this is an uneasy day for many on the atheistic left.
Imagine, thanks to a corrupt gubmint over thanks to God.
CJ Pearson on X: “If you only watch one video this week, make it this one of the great Rush Limbaugh telling us the true story of Thanksgiving. https://t.co/PKDBgO9VB4” / X
Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow tree swingers. Ook ook eek eek lol
Hallelujah! Amen! 🩷🙏🏼✝️
Pondering Thanksgiving yesterday, I realized in all of my 77 years on this earth, there has been a Turkey and abundant food on the tables I’ve sat at. How blessed we are in this country. Let’s not dwell on the bad. Let us thank God for the rich blessings he has bestowed upon us. Thank you Sundance and Treepers for my favorite hangout. May you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
John Winthrop’s sermon to a group of Massachusetts Bay Colony settlers departing in 1630.:
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.
Spend about 6 minutes entering Heaven and Giving Thanks through Anton Bruckner’s miraculous motet Os Iusti (The Mouth of a Just Man):
Os justi meditabitur sapientiam:
et lingua ejus loquetur judicium.
Lex Dei ejus in corde ipsius:
et non supplantabuntur gressus ejus.
Alleluia.
The mouth of the just man utters wisdom,
and his tongue speaks what is just.
The law of his God is in his heart:
and his feet do not falter.
Alleluia!
A nice reminder that I need more Bruckner in my life!
Each of the official 9 symphonies (plus two early ones, the “Study Symphony” and the Symphony #0″) is an exciting and spiritual experience!
e.g.
The Symphony #6 !
Beautiful! Music to pray by.
We praise the Triune GOD for so, so very much.
We are grateful. We remember who we are.
And, Thank you, Sundance for your dedication.
Happy Thanksgiving Treepers..
Happy Thanksgiving Treepers
Sundance,
We don’t know each other personally but I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank you for providing this place where we can be among sane, intelligent people who share our values. Your knowledge, wisdom, and dedication to our beloved country is remarkable. This truly is ” The Last Refuge. ” Thank you from the bottom of my heart. May God bless you and yours richly.
Ditto!
Happy Thanksgiving to all you American CTH supporters.
This Scots born Canadian is grateful to your President for all he does.
🦃 Cheers!
In remembrance of the first Thanksgiving, and the psalm the Pilgrims sang in thanks to Almighty God:
Psalm 100–
“Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!
Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.”
The Hebrew word for “give thanks” in the Old Testament is yadah and it literally means “to acknowledge God in the middle of the mess.”
It doesn’t mean “feel grateful.”
It doesn’t mean “wait until things get better.”
It means “God, I see You present even in this.”
In Jewish worship, yadah wasn’t used for victory it was often used in seasons of fear, uncertainty, and waiting.
Thanksgiving wasn’t a celebration of how well life was going. It was an act of surrender when life didn’t make sense.
And that truth reframes everything we think about gratitude.
Here are several ways I’m practicing yādâ (thanksgiving)in my own life this week
1. Gratitude isn’t something you wait to feel; it’s something you choose to practice. 1 Thessalonians 5:18
2. Today’s pain makes more sense when you remember tomorrow’s promise. Romans 8:18
3. Complaining is often our heart’s way of saying, ‘God, I don’t trust what You’re doing right now.’ Philippians 2:14
4. If Jesus trusted His Father in the worst moment, I can trust Him in mine. 1 Peter 2:23
5. When I think I deserve better, gratitude disappears. But When I remember grace, it returns.” Luke 13:2–3
6. If you can’t lose Christ, then you can’t lose your reason to give thanks. Romans 8:35–39
Thanksgiving isn’t just about being grateful for what you can see. It’s learning to trust God with what you can’t see.
Yādâ is gratitude in uncertainty.
Gratitude in fear.
Gratitude in waiting.
Gratitude in confusion.
Gratitude in the “not yet.”
Gratitude in “even this”
It’s saying, “God, I thank You now because You already know what I don’t.”
So wherever you find yourself right now
if the diagnosis hasn’t come back,
if the finances don’t make sense,
if the relationship is unresolved,
if the future feels uncertain.
you can still yādâ.
Because biblical thankfulness isn’t built on what you have. It’s built on the God who holds what you don’t understand.
And you can trust Him “even in this”.
— Posted by James Bell
Well said.
Thanksgiving IN everything.
Beautiful! Thank you for reminding us what Biblical thankfulness looks like.
Was watching the greatest Christmas Pageant last night with the grandchildren and felt a momentary sadness at all the awfulness going on in our country and the world.Found myself saying a prayer to God to please help us fix this great nation and preserve our values for future generations.
Thank you Sundance,Menagerie and fellow treepers who offer a safe place to share.
Happy Thanksgiving Sundance and all who post to this site. May God’s blessings be with all of us and persevere in making America Great Again!