National Fast Day

As you roll around wondering how so much food could be crammed into one organic space, perhaps you now can appreciate why Abe Lincoln, while proclaiming a national holiday of Thanksgiving, also proclaimed a National Fast Day to emphasize the need for humility, fasting, and prayer in light of our inferior position in the Creation. What? You never heard of it. Odd, that. Surely our culture would support such a thing. I'm sure Oprah's just forgotten to run a show on it lately. Never mind. Just go ahead and get started. The day after Thanksgiving might be the most propitious time.