A Call for a Day of Prayer Posted: Monday, September 29th, 2008 As House Majority Leader Stenny Hoyer said on the floor of the U.S. House, Monday was a day of consequence for America. These are indeed serious times for people in our land and we are in perilous waters.
We submit that the leaders of this state and our nation call for a Day of Prayer and Discernment.
This is not an unprecedented idea. In 1775 our Continental Congress requested a day of prayer in forming a new nation. In 1863, in the height of the Civil War, President Lincoln declared a national day of prayer. On June 6, 1943, the night after Allied troops landed on the shores of Normandy, President Franklin Roosevelt spurned requests for a day of prayer, saying, “I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.”
Let each of us in our respective faith traditions be in prayer for the people of our state, our nation and the world.
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