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A Thanksgiving Message From Glenn Beck

Ok, I promised my wife that I wouldn’t freak out her whole family this Thanksgiving and start talking about all the things going on in the country. But I never said anything about talking to all of you… so brace yourself for my Thanksgiving message.

Ok, yes there are a lot of problems in our country, but today isn’t about bad news. It’s so easy, especially with how things are, to get tunnel vision and focus only on the bad. Politicians have lied to us again and again leading to the highest levels of distrust in history. The economy is a rollercoaster. Friends and family are out of work and the cost of living just seems to go higher and higher. Are you beginning to see why the family put the ‘downer’ ban on me this year? Life is hard, it’s a struggle – but there’s also hope.

There is good news, positive news, and on a day of thanks I think it’s important we talk about those things. Start in your own home. Take a look around and take stock of the things that really matter: Faith. Family. Friends. I’m so excited about Thanksgiving because it gives me time to reconnect with these three critical pieces of my life. While I try and keep things in perspective all year it’s easy to get lost in the bad and forget these three good things.

Faith. Take a moment to look at the role that God plays in your life. I don’t care what church you go to, but I do think that God is an important piece of everyone’s life. This Thanksgiving, get down on your knees and pray. Invite your family to join you. Just turn off the football, step away from the turkey, and give thanks for God’s forgiveness. While in this quiet reflection, take the opportunity to find clarity as well. Now, more than ever, it is important to know what God has planned for you and your life. He did not create you to sit around and eat Doritos all day – so what is it He wants you to do?

Family. Ok, I know not everyone loves being around their relatives during the holidays. You’ve got the crazy uncle telling nonsensical stories or an annoying in-law bugging you about how you’re holding the carving knife the wrong way. Everyone has to deal with this. Just close your eyes, take a breath, and when you open your eyes again realize how much these people shape your life and the lives of those that matter most to you. Your family will be there with you through think and thin – no matter what happens. No matter how crazy things get during the holidays, know that these are the people that have your back. Step back and enjoy their fellowship during the holidays.

Friends. Anyone else out there have a friend they haven’t spoken to in a while? I know I do. This one may sound a little odd, after all faith and family are easier to reconnect with during the holidays than old friends. But I would ask that you call an old friend that you haven’t spoken to in a long time. Touch base, see how they are. The holidays can be tough, many of us have lost family and are going through tough times. Connect with someone who you haven’t spoken with in a while – you never know what difference you may make in a person’s life with just a phone call.

Faith. Family. Friends. These are the connections that sustain us in our life, no matter what may be going on in the world. I’m going to be announcing some things to help bring us all together over the next year – but the first steps begin at home.

Have a wonderful and happy Thanksgiving!

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:09pm

    And peaceful thanksgiving to you sir; and blessings galore..

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:23pm

      Happy Thanksgiving Glenn! May God Bless and Protect You, your Family and Staff!

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    • Founding Father2
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:40pm

      Thank you Glenn Beck.

      Have you seen Kimmel try to get passed the Bachmann fiasco. He did a good job with a Thanksgiving GOP Debate mixed with a little Charlie Brown. Take a look: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/nov/kimmel_charlie_brown.html

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    • hannahh
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:20pm

      Dear Glenn, I am thankful for all those things you mentioned, let me add one more, I’m thankful for you and your courage. May Almighty God bless you and your family.

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:25pm

      Thank you, Glenn, for all you’ve done for America, in fact, for the world. As Americans, we have been the builders, the thinkers, and the inventors of the world. Thanks to the freedom we’ve had in our past we were able to these things. I‘m not saying that other countries don’t have people willing to help one another. I’m positive that they do, but their governments stifle their opportunities for growth as ours is doing increasingly so to us now.
      I was raised by a selfish and union obsessed dad who hates religion. So having never been taught Christianity or even family values. I‘m not a religious person and am one of America’s poorest. I still refuse to take government assistance. I can’t even afford a bed to kneel down to pray on. I sleep on the floor. I’m thankful, at least, that I have shelter and some food. I wish I could do something more and wish my family was one that talks to one another and does things together, but I will try to pray for direction for the first time on this Thanksgiving day nonetheless.
      America should be the beacon of light and hope that The Founders had intended it to be, but I expect that cannot happen until the government undoes its stranglehold on America‘s education system and people stop obsessing on their foolish materialism and hedonistic ways and America’s “well off” stops looking down on those workers not so fortunate as they. Have a great Thanksgiving, Glenn, staff and Blaze readers.
      Glen (w/ one N) :-)

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    • Tman47
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:57pm

      Stay safe, my friend.
      May God bless you, your family, and your audience.

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    • dread_pirate_roberts
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:06pm

      God Bless and protect you, your family, and your staff (even Stu), and have a wonderful thanksgiving!

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    • demint.disciple
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 4:24pm

      And all the Beckites stare at their screens then clap like seals when done reading. Sheesh !! The guy thinks HE’S a messiah, forget about obama..

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:17pm

      Happy Thanksgiving to you also Glenn. May God keep you and
      your family safe. Thanks for all you do.

      Thanks to “The Blaze” staff and the staff at “GBTV. We appreciate
      all that you do.

      To the Blazers,,, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families also.
      I enjoy “The Blaze” and all you posters. It is nice to have somewhere
      the like minded can come and share….. I wish you all Well.

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    • The Top Crusader
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:18pm

      Thanks Glenn, my wife wouldn’t let me pass out an Apocalypse Packet, either.

      Founding Father 2… Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel aren’t the same person.

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    • colt1860
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:40pm

      Happy Thanksgiving!

      George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9AvEotefMs

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 8:02pm

      Happy Thanksgiving to Glenn, his team, all The Blaze readers and even the posers.

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    • Goldsteinbergman
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 9:07pm

      Thanksgiving all you turkey munchers yum yum yum!!!

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:29pm

      Gotta say, it’s a great little blurb. Forget politics, that’s a nice little speech there. Good job Glenn.

      Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Slainte mhor agud!

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    • LookTowardsTheLight
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:33pm

      @demint.disciple

      Go choke on a turkey leg. Beat it fool!

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    • LookTowardsTheLight
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:40pm

      @hownowbrownmao

      What an empty, sad and pathetic life you must lead with your cunning use of 3rd grade insults at somebody you don’t listen to or watch on a regular basis.

      Don’t you have a school bus to blow up you Islamo-facsist twerp?

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    • LookTowardsTheLight
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:43pm

      Glenn, sorry but had to kick a few butts in here before I could with you and your family a happy and most importantly a blessed thanksgiving.

      Losers like @hownowbrownmao and @demint.disciple will be defeated just like all evil does.

      And Glenn, try to keep it to one whole pie please. :-)

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 12:19am

      There are so many things to be thankful for everyday. One thing I am thankful for is your Radio Show. I listen to talk radio everyday at work, and you guys always get me laughing in the morning.
      Whether it’s the “Apocolypse Packets”, the occupy nitwits, or whatever, it is a blessing to be able to laugh about stuff and remember that, no matter how bleak the horizon looks sometimes, we still live in the greatest country in the world. Thank you, Beck. God bless you, your family, your staff, and their familes. Happy Thanksgiving.

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  • KEEPTXSTRONG
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:08pm

    Thank you so much Glenn for everything you do. I will be reading “Being GW” very soon. First I have to finish the book you recommended at the end of “Common Sense’, ‘Lenin, Stalin and Hitler’

    Happy ThanksGiving!!!!!

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  • Large Eagle
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:08pm

    Thanks Glenn and God Bless your family for allowing you to teach us history.
    Love you and your whole audience
    Pray and cover your lifes with the Blood of Christ
    Amen

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:27pm

      Anyone can have a great holiday with family and friends, but who can have a holiday in truth? All you have to do is talk only about things that don’t matter to God to have a good holiday. But if you try to talk about God in truth and light, then you won’t have a very good holiday with your family and friends. And that’s the sad truth.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:28pm

      I’m going to truly have a Happy Thanksgiving, but it doesn’t mean it will be fun.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:41pm

      The Lord God Almighty is the [ Lord of Hosts } because the Lord doesn’t bend himself to fit whatever belief or agenda people have, in that people have to come up to God because He doesn’t come down to our level, like any good Father would not. I’m going to do on earth as it is in Heaven, and I won‘t be calling people who don’t have my doctrine and worship Baal, lest I feed their resolution. America got to this point of decay even coming from being a more religious nation, and therefore there must have been something incorrect in the religion of America to begin with, and repeating the same incorrect religion isn’t going to fix the nation. But still, Have a Great Thanksgiving.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:02pm

      People read the Bible and they pretend to celebrate it and yet they get nothing from it. Jesus said”If they will do this to me, then what will they do to you?” And therefore there must be billions of people not really representing the truth. Job, was scorned by all his friends and family, and yet people somehow think that getting along with everyone means they must be sacred. You are wrong.

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    • hownowbrownmao
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 7:49pm

      Hey Glenn, where is that 5 bucks you owe me? Happy Holiday weirdo!

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  • mgmphd
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:05pm

    God Bless you, Glenn, and thank you for all that you do. Happy Thanksgiving.

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  • ITHINKTHEREFOREIWAS
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:05pm

    Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, sir.

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  • Findalis
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:04pm

    Have a great day. Remember our fighting men and women far from home, far from loved ones. Remember the blessings they help preserve for us. The 4 blessings: Family, Friends, Freedom and Faith. 5 if you add Football.

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  • garyM
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:01pm

    Happy Thanksgiving Glenn and may God’s riches Blessings be on you and your family. I respect your courage and your desire to expose evil to turn our nation around. While I may differ with you on some things, I put those things aside to say I am thankful for your courage to stand for Israel and what you believe to be truth! May we thank God today from where all blessing flow! May we not question God on anything that we don’t understand and trust Him fully. Man may let us down and disappoint us but God is faithful in all things. I thank Him for His Son Jesus who came in human flesh to cover the sins of those who trust Him to be both Lord and Savior of our lives!

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  • LonelyTree
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:58pm

    Awesome message Glenn. Keep up the good work, and no matter what the subject, you always speak the truth.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:58pm

    Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours Glenn. Very good advice and look forward to more coming from you in the future. May God continue to Bless America and I pray that we can all come together in the coming year despite our problems and differences.

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  • snackrabbit
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:57pm

    Enjoy your time with family, Glenn. But get re-charged quick and back to the fight!

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  • bschneidla
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:57pm

    Let us come to him with thanksgiving.
    Let us sing psalms of praise to him. (Psalm 95:2 NLT)

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  • DJ6ual
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:52pm

    Thank you Glenn.

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:51pm

    Happy Thanksgiving to all!!

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  • COFemale
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:51pm

    Well by the few post, you can see who are the die hard Blazers or those who are single… LOL

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    • Goldsteinbergman
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 9:04pm

      We are having some tasty Kosher food, it is really good? I think you muslims are funny! Party on bro!!

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  • olddog
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:50pm

    A Thanksgiving to America.. Americans need to unite in mass and march on the whitehouse in protest of obama demanding he step down immediately to save America and American values..
    Just say when American conservatives will unite to save this country???

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 12:39am

      Seriously? That’s your best idea? Most of us have matters that require our attention daily and cannot willy-nilly “march on Washington”. That is generally done by irresponsible leftwing slackers and parasites that have nowhere to be M-F at 8am. How about trying to convince everybody you know to vote Republican down the ticket next year? I know the Republican party isn’t perfect, but it is our only hope to preserve our standard of living in this country. Wise up.

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on November 25, 2011 at 2:54am

      @Huckabee Gingrich 12 Hush now, and kindly allow someone else to express that which they did, because I for one enjoyed it, and there may be many others who did as well. Thank-you Glenn, and also to

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  • COFemale
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:49pm

    Thanks Glenn, wonderful of you to take time out of your Thanksgiving Day to send us your message. I do hope you and your family have a great day and I guess this year you have to watch the parade on TV rather than in person. Of course, I am assuming you are spending Thanksgiving in Texas rather than NY.

    Happy Thanksgiving! Save room for dessert!

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  • Fighting4America
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:48pm

    Thanks for taking time out and thinking of all of us Glenn. I know so many wish you and yours the best day!! God Bless and Happy Thanks-Giving!!

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  • Middleclass
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:48pm

    Thanks Glenn, Best wishes for you and your family as well.

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  • CPMom
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:45pm

    Shalom! Shalom!

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    • Goldsteinbergman
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 9:06pm

      Yeah, us Hassisic Jews are eating a lot today, I already polished off 2 bottles of wine, pilgrim!!!!! Get it ? Pilgrim, were there there Jewish pilgrims? I am sure there were.

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  • gwthomas90
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:44pm

    Yep! Is sure does… Blessings! g

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  • endgamer
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:42pm

    Thanks Glenn! Will share your message with everyone.

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  • AnAppealToGod
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:42pm

    I wish you would speak of the good news more often.

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  • FToth84
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:39pm

    On The Money!

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  • Whitehouse Mouse
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:38pm

    All the best to you and your family Glen.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:38pm

    Faith and Friends A+……Family…ehhhhhhh OK I will work on it for you Glenn…
    God Bless you my friend.

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    • Conservative New Yorker
      Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:03pm

      LOL Baddoggy! You aren’t alone my friend! ;-) Oh well…!

      Just stopping in to say Happy Thanksgiving to the Blazers and to Glenn, his Family and Blaze staff!
      Great message Glenn!

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