03/20/2024
George Washington- he totally got it!!!
1st President of the United States
Washington included this prayer in a letter to the states. It reveals his desire for the new nation’s people to be knit together by a love for God and for each other. That ideal still applies today to our families, our communities, and beyond, wherever we live.
“I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the state over which you preside, in His holy protection, that He would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field, and finally, that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.”
