On this day that we celebrate our nation I wish you a good time, a great cookout, awe-inspiring fireworks, delicious food and beautiful memories of a precious day in a free country with your loved ones safe and well.
George Washington’s Prayer for His Country
This prayer is read aloud each day at Mount Vernon's public wreath laying ceremony.
I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have the United States in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Devine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation. Amen
Paryer adapted from Washington’s Circula
George Washington's text above from the Mount Vernon website: