The Pilgrims started a tradition that my family and I continue to observe and share. It is the tradition of the 5 kernels of corn. During their first winter, the Pilgrims faced tremendous hardship and disaster. With little food remaining, they rationed what they had, five kernels of corn. After surviving the winter with God’s grace sustaining them, they met new friends, the American Indians, who helped them. The Pilgrims celebrated their new friends and bounty that they had received by using those five kernels to remember the hardships. Each kernel had a meaning for them. The fifth reminded them and reminds us that God listens to our prayers.
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