PRAYER FOR AMERICA BY MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

DEAR GOD,

WE JOIN IN PRAYER TO CELEBRATE THIS NATION AND SURRENDER

ITS DESTINY TO YOU.

WE GIVE THANKS IN OUR HEARTS FOR THE FOUNDING OF THIS

COUNTRY.

WE GIVE THANKS FOR AND BLESS THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO CAME

BEFORE US TO FOUND THIS NATION, TO NURTURE AND TO SAVE IT.

WE ASK THAT GOD'S SPIRIT NOW FILL OUR HEARTS WITH

RIGHTEOUSNESS.

MAY WE PLAY OUR PARTS IN THE HEALING AND THE FURTHERANCE

OF OUR COUNTRY.

MAY WE BE CLEANSED OF ALL DESTRUCTIVE THOUGHTS.

MAY JUDGMENT OF OTHERS, BIGOTRY, RACISM, AND INTOLERANCE

BE WASHED CLEAN FROM OUR HEARTS.

MAY OUR MINDS BE FILLED WITH THE THOUGHTS OF GOD.

HIS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND HIS ACCEPTANCE OF ALL PEOPLE.

MAY THIS NATION BE FORGIVEN ITS TRANSGRESSIONS, AGAINST

THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN, NATIVE AMERICAN, AND ANY AND ALL

OTHERS.

MAY OUR LIVES BE TURNED INTO INSTRUMENTS OF RESURRECTION,

THAT THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS MIGHT BE REVERSED THROUGH US.

MAY THE BOUNTY AND THE GREATNESS OF THIS LAND BURST FORTH

ONCE MORE IN THE HEARTS OF ITS PEOPLE.

MAY THE DREAMS OF OUR FOREFATHERS BE REALIZED IN US, THAT

WE MIGHT LIVE IN HONESTY AND INTEGRITY AND EXCELLENCE WITH

OUR NEIGHBORS.

MAY THIS COUNTRY ONCE AGAIN BECOME A LIGHT UNTO THE NATIONS

OF HOPE AND GOODNESS AND PEACE AND FREEDOM.

MAY VIOLENCE AND DARKNESS BE CAST OUT OF OUR MIDST.

MAY HATRED NO LONGER FIND FERTILE GROUND IN WHICH TO GROW

HERE.

MAY ALL OF US FEEL GOD'S GRACE UPON US.

REIGNITE, DEAR GOD, THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH IN OUR HEARTS.

MAY OUR NATION BE GIVEN A NEW LIGHT, THE SACRED FIRE

THAT ONCE SHONE SO BRIGHT FROM SHORE TO SHORE.

MAY WE BE REPAIRED.

MAY WE BE FORGIVEN.

MAY OUR CHILDREN BE BLESSED.

MAY WE BE RENEWED.

DEAR GOD, PLEASE BLESS AMERICA.

AMEN.