Sunday Morning Reflections

Our niece, Monique, gave me a present for Christmas, called A Prayer for Every Day, 2017. It includes prayers from every religion, as well as words of wisdom from great men and women across centuries and the world. This is where I found the words from Lincoln that I posted on his birthday last Sunday. 

Since so many of you felt comforted by Lincoln's words, and since Washington's birthday is coming up, I thought I would see if his birthday would have more wise words for me to share. This is the prayer I found there: 

"Lady and Lord, bless my country. Guide its governors, show them the path to take, make their actions conform to the way of nature. Knit together the many peoples into one tribe; unite us, make us a family, as indeed we are under your loving gaze." ~ Prayer for a Nation

The publishers selected this prayer for Washington's Birthday, but didn't say where it originated.