A prayer of thanksgiving

Dear God,

Thank you for America. Thank you for a country where we are free to worship you in safety and in peace. Thank you for a government full of checks and balances, so that it is not easy for any one person to overturn it. Thank you for the home America has become for so many from so many parts of the world. Thank you for the blessings you've given us in diversity of people from so many parts of the world, and thank you do how much we can learn from each other. Thank you for the men and women who have fought and still put their lives in danger for the sake of the freedoms we enjoy. 

Please help us to give the benefits we are so grateful for ourselves, the blessing of freedom from religious persecution, that we would do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Please help me to know what to do to be a blessing here, and bless those working to protect our rights and freedoms. Please be with President Trump this week. Help him follow your word not by putting legal preference on Christians, but by doing what you ask of your people.

Leviticus 19:33-34- “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."

In Jesus' name,
Amen