03/23/2020
Hello World, Blue Skies here....
If you're like us, ongoing global events have caused quite a bit of introspection as well as trepidation about what may lie ahead.
We are privileged to have a copy of the "Service Prayer Book" printed for and dedicated to American & Canadian armed forces during WWII. Within this post we are sharing images of the first two pages to serve as a reminder of what an resilient and powerful nation we are when we band together for the common good. Our beloved country has prevailed over and over again when met with challenging circumstances and this time is no different.
The words within this "Invitation to Prayer" once served to give hope and inspiration to a nation that had not only gone through the trials and tribulation of WWI - but now found themselves in another World War...
In many ways, as we find ourselves in the midst of another "world shaking" event, the Invitation to Prayer below is just as relevant as it was in 1940....
If there was ever a time, in the days that lie ahead....Be the Good Change that you wish to see in the world....
Here are a few excerpts:
"A time of testing has come to our nation more severe and searching that ever before in the long story its life. How shall we meet the test? We can rely on the heroic courage of sailors, soldiers, and airmen, and on the no less heroic devotion of works in coal mine and ship yard, in factory and field. But in the last resort it is upon the spirit of the whole nation, of every man and woman within it, that the issue will depend....It is faith - faith in God, faith that God reigns."
"Humbly but confidently we can commit our cause to Him. It must be in accordance with His will that men should defend their land, their homes, their freedom. It must be in accordance with His will...that justice, truth, mercy, freedom should not perish from the earth. Thus even in this anxious hour the summons comes, "Lift up your hearts." Let the answer be, "We lift them up unto the Lord"