For most of us, Thanksgiving Day will be a short-lived experience. It will almost be an interruption in the fast paced preparation being made for the Great Christmas Rush of 1992. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day for trains, planes, and our nation''s roadways. Housewives will be busy preparing for a great feast. Football games will fill the airwaves and generate much excitement in local communities such as ours. In the midst of this busyness, preparation, travel, action, will anyone remember what makes this day so unique from the other 364 days in the calendar year?

Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Jr., tells the story of his going up to the state of Maine every summer for rest and renewal. On his property he always found some trees that had fallen down. He shared the…