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Our fellow prayer warrior, tiki has requested that we place our attention and prayers this night and the days to come on the terror alert which has been announced by Tom Ridge.

BELOVED MERCIFUL FATHER,

During this holy time of celebrating Hanukah and coming now into the last days before Christmas, we bow our heads on bended knee to you in supplication. Father, our nation is at war, here on the sacred ground of our homeland. It may not appear that way to the outer casual eye, but we know that there are forces operating which have the mad desire to kill us and destroy our culture and civilization. And yet, it appears, many are asleep.

But also many of your children in this nation, Father, hold the belief that you have personally guided the development of Western Civilization, with its concept of the Rule of Law, from the democracy and Golden age of Athens, to the Republic of Rome, from the Magna Carta to the US Constitution, and now the dawning day of a new Constitution in our Father Abraham's homeland, Iraq.

Father, we, your children, who love and adore you, and work to adhere to the precepts in your sacred scriptures, affirm this day that Freedom is our birthright, by your divine grace and Will. We affirm that this nation, because we still continue to declare that it is "one nation under God" and is worthy of being defended.

Father, except for the notable exceptions of injustices occuring on both sides between settlers and indigenous peoples, a revolutionary war and a bloody civil war, this soil has thus far been largely spared the wars and shed blood most of the nations of the earth have had to bear. But this circumstance has changed. We have now been attacked in the heart of two of our great cities by a wiley, cowardly, enemy. 3000 of our brothers and sisters wiped out in one blow is a significant number, but Father, we realize that the plans and the hatred behind those plans call for numberless numbers of dead Americans and the total destruction of our infrastructure and ability to sustain our culture and way of life. FAther, we place on the altar this precious nation and her people and we do consecrate and reconsecrate it has Holy Ground, and we pledge ourselves to be in your service.

Lord God, awaken our leaders! Awaken our people! Let those who are in positions to observe, be made aware of any plots, plans, preparations, or plotters. Guide them to do the proper action with the knowledge you bring them.

We ask you Father, in a very tangible way, to speak to our President, his cabinet, all our military leaders, our Representative, and Senators, and all who are our police and public safety officials as to the proper policies and procedures which must be pursued at this time. Father, we place upon the altar the entire situation concerning the problem of illegal aliens and the protection of our borders. We place on the altar any and all actions taken by the enemy against us.

While we have concerns about safety, and we wish to truly be responsible for being good stewards of the physical property of our nation, Father, we also have concerns about preserving our freedoms while we are working to erradicate terrorism in our midst. Father, guide us and help us to achieve the perfect balance between using those preventive police powers and protecting the rights of individuals and private property.

FAther, we are grateful for your constant loving care. We are grateful for our greatest treasure, our young men and women who have put on uniforms of our nation's military. They are actively fighting and some are dying in order to protect this homeland from the enemy. Please let not the sacrifices these ones have made be taken for granted. Let not our people have the attitude that they can hit the snooze button one more time! FAther, it is time and past time for our people to unite in full waking awareness that danger is here, and it is here NOW! Help us to have that alertness, and yet not succumb to paralyzing fear. We have no need to fear, for we declare and affirm this day that you are in total control of our individual lives and of this entire nation. Instead, let us each one adopt a consciousness of "I AM THE GUARD!" Vest our sincere prayers for this nation with your power to expose the enemy and bind him and to bring him into the hands of those who can administer justice to them under your Law.

We thank you our FAther. Place your angels and a grand chain mail of your power and protection and wisdom over this nation as a mighty canopy of light. Adjust our calls to be perfect, for we never desire to pray amiss. Let not this Holy Season be marred by hatred, but rather let there be a genuine and deep peace abiding in this peoples' hearts. This is the Holy Miracle of the season we ask of you this year, and to you goes the glory for all the answered prayers thus far, averting disasters we know not of. We are grateful for the Light of Hanukah. And those who are called to believe, we are grateful for the Light of our Savior born. Nevertheless, we pray not that our lesser human will be done but only thy own magnificent perfect Will.

Amen