Providence to host kids night out next Friday
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Richville Rundown
Sheila Ward
Last newspaper of November! Wow, where did time go? Thanksgiving was yesterday so today people are shopping, watching ball games, hunting, or cleaning up after all the company (family) leaves.
Today when you are reading this, I should be with my daughters doing our annual “Black Friday” shopping. Now it’s a tradition, but with online sales the actual shopping is different.
I’m so thankful that my daughters still want to keep the tradition alive. So many things have changed over the years, but this and the day after Christmas shopping are ones I can count on.
This weekend will be busy with shopping and “the game.” If you have to ask what game, then you are just not into football, especially football in the state of Alabama. Here’s to the best team winning regardless of who you cheer for. Somebody has to lose, so be a good sport! I’ll try to be, but if my team loses, it’s hard to hear from the other side of the family.
Providence Baptist Church will host their “kids’ night out” next Friday, December 5, from 5 to 8 p.m. They play games, eat and just have fun. Any age is welcome, and you don’t have to attend our church to participate. Then, December 8 and 15, we go caroling to homes around the area.
Thanksgiving is often just a time to eat a lot and watch ball games. However, it is so much more. It was first intended to celebrate a great harvest. But as people got away from farming and harvesting their own crops it became a time of giving thanks for all the blessings during the past year.
President George Washington on October 3, 1789, made the proclamation creating the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the government to be November 26. Over the years, it was often not proclaimed as a holiday, but left to individual presidents to declare.
President Grant signed into law the “Holidays Act” that made Thanksgiving an annual federal holiday with the date as last Thursday of November. President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939 declared Thanksgiving to be the next to last Thursday of November in order for retailers to have longer to sell before Christmas.
However, it wasn’t until Congress in 1941 passed the resolution that Thanksgiving would be observed annually on the fourth Thursday of November.
My Bible verse this week is still about thanksgiving or blessings. II Corinthians 9:8 reads, “And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.”
God promises us that we will have what we need, not our wants. So many times, people don’t understand the difference. But, if we follow God, He is there to provide.
We need to do our part by giving cheerfully and generously to others. It’s a continual cycle that when we receive God’s grace that we pass it on to others.
