By Jim Tricoi
AMHERST TIMES
The Town of Amherst has chosen to have an invocation at the beginning of their meetings. A member of the Town Board gives the invocation. The invocation shouldn’t be about youself and what you did on the Town Board.
It should be similar to the pray below.
Will you bow your head as I pray?
Dear wise and loving Father: First let me say, “Thank you” on behalf of all who are gathered here today. Thank you for your many and abundant blessings. Thank you for life itself, for the measure of health, we need to fulfill our callings, for sustenance and for friendship. Thank you for the ability to be involved in useful work and for the honor of bearing appropriate responsibilities. Thanks as well for the freedom to embrace you or the freedom to reject you. Thank you for loving us even so– from your boundless and gracious nature.
Jim Tricoli is editor of the Amherst Times.
Originally published on Amherst Times. Republished with permission.
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