This prayer was a letter to the editor in Wednesday's edition of the Herald:
A Prayer for Healing
by Ronald Reagan
--From a speech to the American people, February 6, 1986
by Ronald Reagan
To preserve our blessed land we must look to God... It is time to
realize that we need God more than He needs us... We also have His
promise that we could take to heart with regard to our country, that "If
my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves, and
pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear
from heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
Let us, young and old, join together, as did the First Continental
Congress, in the first step, in humble heartfelt prayer. Let us do so
for the love of God and His great goodness, in search of His guidance
and the grace of repentance, in seeking His blessings, His peace, and
the resting of His kind and holy hands on ourselves, our nation, our
friends in the defense of freedom, and all mankind, now and always.
The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the
healing of America... Our country is in need of and ready for a
spiritual renewal. Today, we utter no prayer more fervently than the
ancient prayer for peace on Earth.
If I had a prayer for you today, among those that have all been uttered,
it is that one we're so familiar with: "The Lord bless you and keep
you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you;
the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace...." And
God bless you all.
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