From Michelle Malkin:
Pray for our country. By God’s grace, we live in a Republic where we may govern ourselves. Pray God would guide us to do so wisely.
Here is the prayer for our country from the magnificent old 1928 Book of Common Prayer. While my private intercessions are a bit more…specific than this, these sentiments still ring true, across party lines, across the years, and across the issues:
ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favour and glad to do thy will. Bless our land with honourable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogancy, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that, through obedience to thy law, we may show forth thy praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in thee to fail; all which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
2 comments:
Dear Rebecca -
A wonderful prayer!
I have used the 1928 Book of Common Prayer in my private devotions since 1976. Lynne and I use it from time to time in our devotions together. Occasionally, its prayers are used in our worship services at Westminster. My life has been immeasurably enriched by it.
It's easy to find the Prayerbook on the web, but I like holding it in my hands when I pray. I can't imagine praying from a text on a computer screen, but that might be no more than a further indication of my advancing age.
Cordially,
Charlie
I have a small black leather-bound copy that the church gave me as a graduation gift when I finished college. I have read through it, but am sad to admit that it spends most of its time on the shelf. Maybe it should migrate closer to my night stand...
(and you're right about reading from the computer screen, it's not nearly the same as holding the prayer in your hands).
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