The DNC benediction:
We beseech you, almighty God to shed your grace on this noble
experiment in ordered liberty, which began with the confident assertion
of inalienable rights bestowed upon us by you: life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.
Thus do we praise you for the gift of life. Grant us the courage to
defend it, life, without which no other rights are secure. We ask your
benediction on those waiting to be born, that they may be welcomed and
protected. Strengthen our sick and our elders waiting to see your holy
face at life’s end, that they may be accompanied by true compassion and
cherished with the dignity due those who are infirm and fragile.
We praise and thank you for the gift of liberty. May this land of
the free never lack those brave enough to defend our basic freedoms.
Renew in all our people a profound respect for religious liberty: the
first, most cherished freedom bequeathed upon us at our Founding. May
our liberty be in harmony with truth; freedom ordered in goodness and
justice. Help us live our freedom in faith, hope, and love. Make us
ever-grateful for those who, for over two centuries, have given their
lives in freedom’s defense; we commend their noble souls to your eternal
care, as even now we beg the protection of your mighty arm upon our men
and women in uniform.
We praise and thank you for granting us the life and the liberty by
which we can pursue happiness. Show us anew that happiness is found
only in respecting the laws of nature and of nature’s God. Empower us
with your grace so that we might resist the temptation to replace the
moral law with idols of our own making, or to remake those institutions
you have given us for the nurturing of life and community. May we
welcome those who yearn to breathe free and to pursue happiness in this
land of freedom, adding their gifts to those whose families have lived
here for centuries.
We praise and thank you for the American genius of government of the
people, by the people and for the people. Oh God of wisdom, justice,
and might, we ask your guidance for those who govern us: President
Barack Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden, Congress, the Supreme Court,
and all those, including Governor Mitt Romney and Congressman Paul Ryan,
who seek to serve the common good by seeking public office. Make them
all worthy to serve you by serving our country. Help them remember that
the only just government is the government that serves its citizens
rather than itself. With your grace, may all Americans choose wisely as
we consider the future course of public policy.
9/07/2012
Life, liberty, happiness
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