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• Our Father and Our God, we praise You for Your goodness to our nation, giving us blessings far beyond what we deserve. Yet we know all is not right with America. We deeply need a moral and spiritual renewal to help us meet the many problems we face. Convict us of sin. Help us to turn to You in repentance and faith. Set our feet on the path of Your righteousness and peace. We pray today for our nation's leaders. Give them the wisdom to know what is right, and the courage to do it. You have said, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord." May this be a new era for America, as we humble ourselves and acknowledge You alone as our Savior and Lord. This we pray in Your holy name, Amen.
  - Billy Graham

• Lord of all worlds, let thanks and praise
  To Thee forever fill my soul;
  With blessings Thou hast crowned my days,
  My heart, my head, my hand control:
  O, let no vain presumptions rise,
  No impious murmur in my heart,
  To crave the boon Thy will denies,
  Or shrink from ill Thy hands impart.
  
  Thy child am I, and not an hour,
  Revolving in the orbs above,
  But brings some token of Thy power,
  But brings some token of Thy love;
  And shall this bosom dare repine,
  In darkness dare deny the dawn,
  Or spurn the treasures of the mine,
  Because one diamond is withdrawn?
  
  The fool denies, the fool alone,
  Thy being, Lord and boundless might;
  Denies the firmament, Thy throne,
  Denies the sun’s meridian light,
  Denies the fashion of his frame.
  The voice he hears, the breath he draws:
  O idiot atheist! To proclaim
  Effects unnumbered without cause!
  
  Matter and mind, mysterious one,
  Are man’s for threesome years and, ten;
  Where, ere the thread of life was spun?
  Where, when reduced to dust again?
  All-seeing God, the doubt suppress;
  The doubt then only canst relieve
  My soul Thy Saviour-Son shall bless,
  Fly to my gospel, and believe.

- John Quincy Adams

• Our Father in Heaven
  We pray that You save us from ourselves.
  The world that You have made for us, to live in peace, we have made into an armed camp.
  We live in fear of war to come.
  We are afraid of “the terror that flies by night, and the arrow that flies by day, the pestilence that walks in darkness and the destruction that wastes at noon-day.”
  We have turned from You to go our selfish way.
  We have broken Your commandments and denied Your truth.
  We have left Your altars to serve the false gods of money and pleasure and power.

Forgive us and help us.

Now, darkness gathers around us and we are confused in all our counsels.
Losing faith in You, we lose faith in ourselves.
Inspire us with wisdom, all of us of every color, race, and creed, to use our wealth, our strength to help our brother, instead of destroying him.
Help us to do Your will as it is done in heaven and to be worthy of Your promise of peace on earth.
Fill us with new faith, new strength, and new courage, that we may win the Battle for Peace.
Be swift to save us, dear God, before the darkness falls.

- Conrad Hilton