IN THE INTERIM November is a wonderful time of year. It is a month that we see the peak of colors with the leaves turning, just before the task of raking them all up.  It is a month when many go out and perform their civic duty of voting for a candidate of their choice.  And most of all, it is a month that has a day set aside to give thanks to the Lord our God for all He has done for us.  A time when families join together to share a meal and give thanks.  Many will go around the table telling what they are most thankful for over the past year.  Thanksgiving is not technically a Christian holiday, but it is one that all Christians should observe and give thanks. Of course we know the roots of this holiday.  We are familiar with the traditional story of Thanksgiving where in 1621 William Bradford, of Plymouth Rock, proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving to celebrate the survival of the Pilgrims in their second year in the New World, as well as an abundant harvest that they had reaped with the aid of the local indigenous people. However, a lot of people don’t know that the first American Thanksgiving didn’t occur in 1621. The first recorded thanksgiving actually took place right here in...