GREAT NATION
HELP US TO LEAVE BEHIND OUR DESTRUCTIVE WAYS
HELP US REBUILD OUR NATION, STRONGER AND BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER
GIVE US STRENGTH AND CHARITY, AND HELP US ENDURE, AS INDIVIDUALS, AS ONE PEOPLE, AND AS A NATION
GIVE OUR LEADERSHIP STRENGTH, COURAGE AND DIRECTION
HELP US DEAL WITH THE TEARS IN OUR OWN HEARTS
AND, PLEASE, DRY THE TEARS IN THE EYES OF THOSE LEFT BEHIND WHO SUFFER SUCH DEEP UNSPEAKABLE LOSSES
PLEASE HELP US OVERCOME THIS TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AND GIVE US THE STRENGTH AND COURAGE TO CARRY ON
PUT PEACE, ENDURANCE AND FORTITUDE IN THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO ARE BRAVELY RISKING THEIR LIVES WHILE THEY TRY TO FIND AND HELP SURVIVORS IN THE WRECKAGE IN NEW YORK AND IN WASHINGTON
COMFORT US BY REMINDING US THAT THOSE WHO ARE NO LONGER WITH US ARE WITH YOU
HELP US TO REMEMBER THAT THOSE LEFT BEHIND NEED OUR LOVE, SUPPORT AND DEVOTION
HELP US TO FORGET OUR DIFFERENCES, RATHER, HONOR EACH OTHER
HELP US TO REMEMBER WHO AND WHERE WE ARE DURING OUR DAILY ROUTINE
REMIND US TO BE HUMBLE
OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN
HALLOWED BE THY NAME
THY KINGDOM COME
THY WILL BE DONE
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD
AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESSPASSES
AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESSPASS AGAINST US
DELIVER US FROM EVIL
FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM
THE POWER
AND THE GLORY FOREVER!!
IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST,
AMEN!!
THIS PRAYER WAS WRITTEN BY A DEAR FRIEND OF MINE,
LINDA BRAZELTON
CLARKSTON, MICHIGAN