Monday, January 19, 2009

OPEN LETTER TO THE 44th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

As you are officially sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20, 2009, your American constituents will be looking forward to your unique leadership style and your philosophies of life, which includes your economic, social, and political agendas. As you assume your awesome Presidential duties and responsibilities, your American public will be observing and listening with cautious optimism how your Administration will be meeting the economic, social, political, and financial challenges that you have inherited. Time will tell how you are listening to your American Public.

To assist you in your commitment to serving ALL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, we offer the following prayers that will hopefully will guide you as you defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Your positive example will inspire multitudes to climb the American Ladder of Achievement to reach the maximum self-fulfillment with 100 percent success. Your exemplary example will speak louder than your words. Rhetoric is very limited in trying times.

"O Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into Heaven, did promise to send the Holy Spirit to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and Disciples would you please grant the same Holy Spirit to Barack Obama that He may perfect in his soul the work of Your grace and Your love. Grant President Obama the Spirit of Wisdom that he may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal, the Spirit of Understanding to enlighten his mind with the light of Your divine truth, the Spirit of Counsel that President Obama may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining Heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude that he may bear his cross with You and that he may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose his salvation, the Spirit of Knowledge that President Obama may know God and know himself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints, the Spirit of Piety that he may find the service of God sweet and amiable, the Spirit of Fear that he may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him. Mark President Obama, dear Lord, with the sign of Your true disciples and animate him all things with Your Spirit. Amen."

In addition, may the following prayer encourage you to be open and to listen positively to the guidance of sound judgment as is contained in the "Prayer of Saint Francis."

"Lord, make President Barack Obama an instrument of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let him sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that President Obama may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive, and it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life." (Prayer of Saint Francis)

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR SPECIAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE, JANUARY 20, 2009, as you commence your new role as leader of the free world and the commander-in-chief of all of the Armed Services that defend the freedoms of our Republic. God bless America, and America bless God! God bless our 44th President of the United States of America. IN GOD WE TRUST! E PLURIBUS UNUM! ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

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