The attached is included in a email circulating called Billy Graham's Prayer for our Nation. I've tried to verify this online and can not confirm that he wrote this. I wonder if any of my readers have an "in" with Reverend Graham and could verify whether or not he wrote this? The integrity of my blog is at stake, people!
Richard R has investigated this and discovered that the prayer was actually prayed by Rev. Joe Wright. Thank you, Richard for this clarification.
Regardless of who wrote it, it is a wonderful prayer so I will share it with you today:
'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!'
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haha! You're a funny girl, Nancy:) I'll ask someone to verify it. But it honestly could be one of his innaugural prayers? Or a national prayer breakfast prayer? It's a good one, though!
Where is your Halloween post? I've been eagerly waiting for it? AND your post on your new hair-do!!
Nancy, it actually was a prayer by Rev. Joe Wright at the opening of a session of the Kansas House of Representatives in January 1996.
Reference:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/wright.asp
Go Richard! Setting the blog straight. Thanks! It is a good prayer - I'll correct my post to reflect the author.
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