A Powerful Prayer for 2008:
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!
I received this prayer in an email today from a friend, it says to pass it along via email. I'm always wary of these kinds of emails. What is contained in them tends to lend itself to the urban legend category. But this one didn't show up on Snopes so I checked out my second favorite site, About.com: Urban Legends. They had an entry about it. It is true and was from a speech given not this year, but in 1996 (hmm, still applies today dont' ya think!) This is what About.com had to say about it:
"While not word-for-word accurate, this is a fair transcription of an actual prayer delivered before the Kansas House of Representatives by Central Christian Church Pastor Joe Wright on January 23, 1996. It has circulated continuously on the Internet ever since.
At least one legislator did walk during the prayer, according to the Kansas City Star. Others made speeches criticizing what the House Minority Leader, a Democrat, called "the extreme, radical views" reflected in the prayer. It was aired nationally on the radio in February 1996 by Paul Harvey."
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