Angela, you are so funny. The prayer is from Pastor Joe Wright, as you wrote. The
minute I saw this I passed it by, well, for a second out of kindness I glanced a
bit. I thought that it might have some worth, giving all thoughts due, until I
saw another authority deemed worthy, Paul Harvey. Passed by the rest in it's
entirety. It's a wash, a pseudo baptismal bath of printed english language that
means nothing.
I don't have time. We don't have time. You don't have time, and if you do, make
every minute count.
/donna
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The Posture for a Politically
> Correct Prayer
> When Pastor Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas
> Senate, everyone was expecting the usual politically correct generalities. But
> what they heard was a stirring prayer, passionately calling our country to
> repentance and righteousness. The response was immediate. In six short weeks
> more than 5,000 phone calls were logged, with only 47 of those calls
> responding negatively. Paul Harvey aired Pastor Joe wright's prayer on the
> radio and received a larger response to the program than nay other program
> Paul Harvey has ever aired. International requests for copies of the prayer
> from, India, Africa, Korea and other countries are still pouring in.
>
> The prayer was prayed as follows:
>
> "Heavenly Father, we come beofre You today to ask your forgiveness and seek
> Your direction and guidance, we know Your Word says, 'Woe on those who call
> evil good'. but that's exactly what e have done. We have lost our spiritual
> equilibrium and inverted our own values. We confess that:
>
> We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism;
> We have worshipped other gods and called it multi-culturalism;
> We have endorsed perversion at home and in public office and called it an
> alternative lifestyle;
> We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery;
> We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation;
> We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare;
> We havekilled our unborn and called it choice;
> We have hated those in favor of abortion, wieldedsigns at them in anger
> and called it justifiable;
> We have neglected to dicipline our children and called it building self-
> esteem;
> We have abused power and called it political savvy;
> 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 haveridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it
> enlightenment.
> Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; try us and see it there be some
> wicked way in us; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless
> the
> men and women who have been sent by the people to govern us. Grant them
> Your
> wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the center of Your
> will. I ask it
> in the name of Your Son, the Living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
> ******************************************************************************
> ********************
> Reguardless of what faith, color, race and argurer, perhaps any of us can
> garner
> respect for ALL. I only read, one time I gave an http:// and moved on to
> more
> important things for the children in this country that dont seem to have
> enough
> adults that really care about the classroom.
> In the last of October, I had a brain scan. when I returned to the Drs
> office the next
> time he smiled a smill I have never seen from a person and said "Mary, I
> want you
> to know, "You have a very good brain." Now I am telling all others that
> they cant
> talk to me until they have had their scan ran and it has to come to my
> level or
> above. I am a 71 1/2 year-young and very involved in many subjects in our
> everyday lives. I dont demonstrate, scream, accuse, be impolite to anyone
> but an
> in the process of placing a gag order on a man that for some reason has to
> blast
> me at every chance he gets. I feel he is attempting to get me to react. I
> sure will
> but not in the way he wants, in front of others. We belong to some of the
> same
> groups and too many of my friends are upset over his actions. However they
> do
> stay silent and dont respond, GOOD. I have been behind the Iron Curtain 3
> times.
> all three to Yugoslavia, first time 1958-9, then 12 years ago. How many of
> you
> have been to a country such as this? My values, I am sure are different
> because
> of what I have witnessed. NO, I Never want to see it in this country.
> Perhaps some
> will understand that we are all RICH, even our poorest residents in this
> country.
> Why does everything have to be a fight between us? Keep it up & we sure
> wont
> be able to look ourselves in a mirror, there wont be one. Goodnight
> Mary P.
