SHOCKING PRAYER(Keywords: SHOCKING PRAYER, bernard preston, Stones in my Clog, Cowards Castle ) When Rev Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:
"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 anti-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!" The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. STONES IN MY CHIROPRACTIC CLOGThank the Good Lord for men and women who periodically make us feel distinctly uncomfortable. In Stones in my Clog, Bernard Preston gives us anecdotes from the Chiropractic Coalface that have disturbed his equilibrium. Not for the faint-hearted, some of these stories may leave you too with a stone in your shoe that you'd rather not have!
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