By Mike Peek

There is a podcast of a radio program  The Ramsey Show , that I enjoy listening to on my way to work. I was listening to this program the morning after Thanksgiving Day, when the host told a story that I had never heard, reading a historical document that I really needed to hear. I was lead to believe that Thanksgiving Day was started by the pilgrims, the people and congregation that made up the Plymouth, Massachusetts colony. I enjoy history because it helps me to understand why things are the way that they are. I have done some extensive reading on the Plymouth, Massachusetts colony and had read that they did have a feast, on a certain spring day, with some local Indians that had befriended them. However, this does not account for the Thanksgiving Day feast that I came to understand from my childhood. I had come to understand Thanksgiving Day as a family feast, a holiday for extended family members together. In the past few years, our family has lost members, the remaining member...

It has been a difficult few years. I have struggled a great deal in heart and mind. Everyday I get older and cannot go back to the days of my youth. Why do things happen or not happen for that matter? Why is the world such that it is? Trouble and anguish have overtaken me and there is nothing that I can do about it.  Should I worry all the day long? I have worried but worry has not changed anything. Should I desire? I have desired but desire has not changed anything.  When I say to others that I am defeated, they do not understand, and tell me that I am not defeated, when I know that I am. To whom or were do I turn? I turn to the Word of the Lord. The Word of the Lord promises good for those who trust in his Word and defeat of the enemy. The enemy is as strong as a hurricane but the Lord is my shelter. He has promised good to those who trust in him. The good that he promises is not in this world but the world that is to come. I believe, may he help my unbelief. May he transfor...