Thanksgiving/ Harvest Home
Come,
ye thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest home;
All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin.
God our Maker doth provide for our wants to be supplied;
Come to God’s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home.
All is safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin.
God our Maker doth provide for our wants to be supplied;
Come to God’s own temple, come, raise the song of harvest home.
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In
England when I was growing up we did not celebrate Thanksgiving .
However
every Autumn we celebrated Harvest Home at the Methodist church I
attended .
This
was a very special Sunday service when everyone was asked to bring
some food to be blessed. All the little kids from Sunday school were
told to get their mums to give them some fruit or veggies, pies or
tin cans to help for the display. These would be brought into the
church and the church ladies would arrange them very decoratively
and tastefully all over large tables at the front of the church by
the altar.
Now
you have to remember I grew up during world war 2 and food had been
in very short supply and still was to some extent so it always made
us all astonished to see the huge and colorful display at the front
of the church. I can still remember the magnificent displays of
colors and all kinds of shapes just incredible.
We
always had a very special service on that day. The kids all had
practiced special hymns to sing, the sermon was about the beauty of
the harvest and God's goodness to us all and we all were encouraged
to think and give thanks for all His blessings.
So I
guess Thanksgiving and Harvest Home are very similar in nature.
