I don't know if its true but interesting read

[caelkhnter]

This Pastor has guts!! Thought you might enjoy this
> interesting
> prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of
> their Senate. It
> seems prayer still upsets some people. 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 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. 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.

 

[NDBadlandsbucks]

The story may or may not be true, but the prayer IS the truth.

Keep the Sun at Your Back and the Wind in Your Face