Invocation for State Senate Feb 17th, 2022 President's Day

Seventy-Third General Assembly     STATE OF  COLORADO Second Regula

As our 2022 Legislature meets during this month of important birthdays: Frederick Douglass, the noted abolitionist who celebrated it after being freed on Valentine's Day, President Abraham Lincoln whose birthday was last week, President George Washington next week and, (shameless plug) yours truly on the 20th, grant, O God, that you Senators and staff be imbued with the spirit of mission, purpose and vision of our great American leaders.

 

During this time of pandemic anxiety and disenfranchised grief may we heed the words of  (Narrative of the Life of Frederick) Douglass who wrote in his autobiography, "...in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom.”

 

Let gloom and sadness give way to joy and happiness as Washington noted that

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

May you heed the moral duty to help the widow, the poor, the orphan, and the strangers in our midst.

 

And finally,  Lincoln said, “When I do good, I feel good.”  May you all feel good after a session of doing good for all the people of our state.

 

May the Source of Wisdom, Chonein haDaat, continue to shower birthday blessings to all of you who legislate here in Colorado with inspiration, integrity and insight!