Flag Day in Johnson City
Today is Flag Day which commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.
It’s wonderful to live in Johnson City, Texas, a town that loves America and celebrates traditions such as Flag Day.
Our flag is a symbol of the greatest nation on earth, exceptional in that America is a nation of immigrants bonded together by a shared commitment to the democratic principles of liberty, equality, individualism and laissez faire economics, as well as one nation under God.
I have the honor every year to give the Invocation at our Flag Day Observance sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution in front of the Courthouse.
Here is the prayer I composed during my time with the Lord this morning and then prayed at the Courthouse:
Lord God of the earth and of America,