A Prayer for Our Nation

I know this doesn't have anything to do with my stay here in France but I was sent this prayer and found it quite profound and worthy of meditation, so I wanted to remind myself and those of you who are choosing to take this journey with us.

Thank you.

Michelle et Abigail


This was in front of the Kansas Senate by Pastor Joe Wright in 1996:

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, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!'