🙏 After writing the #Mayflower Compact on Sat., Nov. 11th, the #pilgrims held their first church service on board the ship on Sunday the 12th. Then, on Monday the 13th, “Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the GOD of HEAVEN who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.” William Bradford, 1620 ⛵️“Let us teach our children and grandchildren of the character required to make this voyage. May we also be as grateful and thank Him that the presence of women and children; families, that became the hallmark and foundation for our nation. Let us thank Him for the silver lining of good that He brings forth after taking us through the storms of life!” William Bradford recorded such events “That their children may see with what difficulties their fathers wrestled in going through these things in their first beginnings, and how God brought them along.” #faith #morality #law #education = #liberty