Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank you for your love. Except our thanks for your peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely.
Make us strong to do your work, willing to heed and hear your well, and write on your hearts with these words: “Use power to help people.”
For we are getting power not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor your name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. Help us to remember it, Lord.
The Lord, our God be with us, as He was with our fathers; may he not leave us or forsake us; so that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways that all people of the Earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.
George H. W. Bush (1924-2018) Forty-first president of the United States of America. Excerpted from inaugural address, January 20, 1989
Whispers of Grace 
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