I just got this in an e-mail, might make for some good reading:
When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new
session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting
the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:
"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 confess that we have ridiculed
the absolute truth of Your Word and call it Pluralism.
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.
Guide and bless these men and women who have been
sent to direct us to the center of Your will and to
openly ask these things in the name of Your Son, the
living Savior, Jesus Christ.
Amen!"
The response was immediate. A number of legislators
walked out during the prayer in protest..
In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where
Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone
calls with only 47 of those calls responding
negatively.
The church is now receiving international requests
for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and
Korea.
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his
radio program, "The Rest of the Story," and received a
larger response to this program than any other he has
ever aired.
With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our
nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we
again can be called "one nation under God."
If possible, please pass this prayer on to your
friends. "If you don't stand for something, you will
fall for everything."