“Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love.
Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely.
Make us strong to do Your work, willing to heed and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: ‘Use power to help people.’
For we are given power not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.
Help us remember, Lord. Amen.”
– President George H.W. Bush, Inaugural Prayer, January 20, 1989
