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Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton and guys, National Day of Prayer. Of course, a rich tradition in America.

And man, there's gatherings happening all over the country today. A lot of them will be

breakfast gatherings. Some people will do it around lunch and then there'll be some candlelight

events tonight. But it's a wonderful, wonderful day. And not something new in America

history. You guys have all kinds of prayer proclamations hanging right there at the Wild Builders headquarters.

Yeah, we do.

And I'm actually up in Maryland this morning, getting ready to do a breakfast.

And it's East Coast time, and it is super wee early hours for all of us.

But there is so much tradition when it comes to

faith in America. One of the things I'm going to point out this morning is when we became a

nation and not like when America was first discovered quote unquote, right, from European. It's not

when necessarily Columbus landed here, although when Columbus landed here, they had a day of prayer and Thanksgiving to thank God they survived. You can go through all of

these significant moments because it was the same thing with the founding of Jamestown, the same thing

with the pilgrims landing up in Plymouth. Every one of these significant events we could point to

in American history, all of them had

moments of prayer, if not days of prayer. And so faith was always part of this, but the very

first time the founding fathers ever came together was September 6, 1774. John Adams wrote

Abigail about that day. And he says the first motion that was made was made by

Thomas Christian in Massachusetts. The motion was that they would open with prayer. And they,

he explains that they kind of debated, they discussed it. They finally agreed to bring in the

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