Thursday, January 22, 2009

I say...amen

Excerpt From Rick Warren's Inauguration Invocation...

"Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.

When we presume that our greatness and our prosperity is ours alone, forgive us. When we fail to treat our fellow human beings and all the earth with the respect that they deserve, forgive us. And as we face these difficult days ahead, may we have a new birth of clarity in our aims, responsibility in our actions, humility in our approaches and civility in our attitudes—even when we differ.
Help us to share, to serve and to seek the common good of all. May all people of good will today join together to work for a more just, a more healthy and a more prosperous nation and a peaceful planet. And may we never forget that one day, all nations, all people will stand accountable before You."

I have so much I to say, but I for now this echo will have to suffice...
MAY WE ALL have humility in our approaches and civility in our attitudes--even when we differ because we are all Americans."

1 comment:

the Eggett's said...

Yes, this was definitely the BETTER prayer that was said that day.