A Prayer for Governing

Dear Lord

I pray for our country, as we awake in the new light, the new day, after the close election. I join Governor Romney and President Obama in the call to common sacrifice, to a rejecting of ideology, and to the calling of our nation together. As I prayed yesterday, I pray again today, We are not red or blue; We are a purple country, drenched in so many blessings, a royal priesthood if we would just accept the love of God and turn from the self-centeredness of the world.

I pray for our country, that we will find kind words and expressions of common purpose now that the elections are over. We are strongest when we come together. And we face challenges as a nation. Together these can become opportunities for growth and positive change locally, nationally, and around this troubled world.

Please guide the hearts of our nation and our leaders. May we see the results of the election as a mandate to responsibility, as a calling to action, to fix the deficit and the debt; but also to care for one another, to reach across the divides of party, of class, of race, of gender, of all of the compartmentalization we find ourselves in.

May we come together as one nation for the common purpose of governing and walk as a people, the melting pot that is America, the quilt, the salad, yes; but one nation under God.

Amen

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A Prayer for Election Day 2012

Dear Lord

I pray for our country this election day, that God would help us discern the right candidates to lead our nation and our states.

We are not red or blue; We are a purple country, drenched in so many blessings, a royal priesthood if we would just accept the love of God and turn from the self-centeredness of the world.

I pray for our country, that we would find a kind word and an expression of common purpose once the elections are over. We are strongest when we come together. And we face challenges as a nation. Together they can become opportunities for growth and positive change locally, nationally, and around the world.

Please vote. Too many of our heroes have fought, been injured, and died for our right to vote. We must never forget, never be complacent, the sacrifice they have made that we might be free. Please vote, it is the very least we can do for the sacrifice they all have made. Freedom isn't free.

Amen

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A prayer for election day

Dear Lord

I pray for our country this election day, that God would help us discern the right candidates to lead our nation and our states.

We are a purple country, drenched in so many blessings, a royal priesthood if we would just accept the love of God and turn from the self-centeredness of the world.

I pray for our country, that we would find a kind word and an expression of common purpose once the elections are over. We are strongest when we come together.

Please vote. Too many of our heroes have fought, been injured, and died for our right to vote. Please vote, it is the very least we can do for the sacrifice they all have made. Freedom isn't free.

Amen

All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 27,390+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

Thanking a Veteran – v2

In the winter, in the summer
wherever we see the stars and stripes,
those who have bravely served,
those who went into battle
those who fought and died for us.

Stop and thank them, the veterans,
for they stood in the breach;
standing up for our freedoms
because freedom isn’t free.

Acknowledge their sacrifice,
for some of them never came back,
others still wounded in ways
only they can comprehend.

Stop and thank them, the veterans,
whether of this generation or the last;
all of them choosing to serve
in dark places of the world,
to go when our nation called.


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Edited November 5, 2012
“Thanking a Veteran – v2”
Edited September 11, 2012
new poem, “Thanking a Veteran”
&
All of my Veteran’s Day poems
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Veteran%E2%80%99s%20Day
&
All of my Memorial Day poems
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Memorial%20Day
& earlier poem:
November 11, 2010
“In the Rain, in that Place”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/11/in-rain-in-that-place.html
Veteran’s Day 2010
and remembering being
at the Vietnam Memorial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial
during the 10th anniversary
Veteran’s Day 1992

All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 23,410+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.