LETTER #24 of “LETTERS TO MY YOUNG ADULT CHILDREN AND TO A WOKE, DECEIVED AND UNLOVED GENERATION” (Letter 24) by Daniel Whyte III, author of the National Bestselling Books: “Letters to Young Black Men” and “Letters to Young Black Women” First written over 30 years ago.

Dear Danita, Daniel, Danni, Danyelle Elizabeth, Danyel Ezekiel, Daniqua Grace, Danae, Danielle Tekeela, Duran, and Kywaizia:

I truly pray and hope that each one of you is experiencing a blessed, godly, joyful, and peaceful Thanksgiving season, of course, without sin and evil. I thank God for His love, mercy, and grace in blessing me with 365 days of Thanksgiving, which Daniella (Danni) wrote a book about years ago, and each Thanksgiving I see is ice cream on the cake, particularly as old as I am. Today, minus the devil and the devil working through your mother, as usual, it has been a victorious, peaceful, and quiet Thanksgiving season with one of the greatest annual Thanksgiving messages and services we have ever had and one of the greatest Standing Between the Living and the Dead devotional services we have ever had, thank you for being a big part of it. I cannot thank the Lord enough for allowing me to preach twice and for you all helping me, especially Daniqua Grace, Danyel Ezekiel, and Danyelle Elizabeth. You three were right on time and right on point. And because we are using the big computer as our camera because the real camera is not working, the things that you all sent rolled right onto that computer, even when it is closed. So all we have to do is open up the camera and we are ready to roll. 

My “BLESSED THANKSGIVING” loving Thanksgiving remembrance of you is very simple, I thank God for all of the wonderful, precious memories of all of the Thanksgivings that we have experienced together down through the years. Yes, the food was great. Yes, the movies were great. Yes, the football games were more interesting back in those days, but what has always been the scarlet thread and the main thing about our Thanksgivings has been to give God thanks, and to give Jesus thanks for the love, mercy, and grace that they have bestowed upon us, and the miraculous blessings that they have bestowed upon us, especially the gift and spirit of Thanksgiving, which, let me remind you, none of us sought after but God in His mercy and grace bestowed upon us, and it has made all of the difference in our lives, but most importantly, we thank God for the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the privilege to serve Him and others around the world during Thanksgiving week. God has been very good to our nuclear family. And, not only has God been good to us, but God has used us to impact the lives of individuals and families across the country and around the globe. Glory be to God!

My “BLESSED THANKSGIVING” devotional “Text” is: “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with Thanksgiving” — Colossians 4:2.

Danita, Daniel, Danni, Danyelle Elizabeth, Danyel Ezekiel, Daniqua Grace, Danae, Danielle Tekeela, Duran, and Kywaizia, I love you all very much and I am praying for you all without ceasing. Again, thank you for being a part of thirty-five of the greatest Thanksgiving experiences in the history of the world, and thank you for the greatest, most vivid precious memories in the world, as far as I am concerned. Please continue to pray for me.

Love God and Jesus Christ first.

Love Papa, second.

Love,

Papa