Saturday, November 29, 2025

TERRI GREEN: Thanksgiving prayer originally written by Benjamin Franklin . . .

The Father Knows Best episode "Thanksgiving Day" November 1954 features a plot where the Andersons decide to go out for Thanksgiving dinner instead of cooking, much to the family's initial dismay. The episode shows Jim Anderson relating a Thanksgiving prayer originally written by Benjamin Franklin:

"Oh Lord, we give thee thanks from the depths of our humble hearts for all the blessings thou has seen fit to bestow upon us. We thank thee for the food, which graces our table, the roof, which covers our head. "We thank thee for the privilege of living as free men in a country which respects our freedom and our personal rights to worship and think and speak as we choose. "We thank thee for making us a family, for giving us sincerity and understanding. "But most of all, dear Lord, we thank thee for giving us the greatest gift a family may know--the gift of love for one another. Amen." 

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