A Prayer for the Nation

"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!"