Father,

I just sent a letter inviting Mary Matalin and James Carville to be figureheads for THE GUIDE. I thank you that Mary wrote me back the first time, that she remembered me and that she knows about Tommy and Lisa. I pray she will read the letter, look at the site, and fully grasp its potential. Let her see beyond its flaws and into the future. Open her eyes. And make her a close personal friend.

Lord, THE GUIDE has been hard to plan because I have such strong views. It is hard to put it into the hands of people that I know seek to obliterate what I believe to be truth. But if everyone has a chance to state their thoughts then at least truth won't be obliterated. And at least false accusations can be dismantled. Myths can be debunked line by line. Real truth can be discerned by those who truly seek it. I can't imagine a better medium for disecting truth. Therefore, I pray your blessings on THE GUIDE. Let America be a city on a hill shining light brightly to all nations through it. Bless the hands of those who type into it with the transforming power of the whole truth.

When I married Lisa we lit unity candles, we sang a special song of unity, we had three pastors - a baptist, a pentecostal and a catholic priest. We even tried to bring in a black gospel choir because we wanted to emphasize unity in diversity. It is because that is what marriage is. Two become one. One doesn't control the other. There is mutual respect and appreciation. A marriage ends in divorce if unity is never desired in the heart. At some point we have to begin to love and respect or we die.

You blessed my marriage with Lisa over these fourteen years. You were pleased when you saw us work out our disagreements. Life gets tense especially when we fail to pray. But you are preparing us for that perfect unity that will come when we put on our bridal garments as church and meet Your Son.

Send Your healing oil, the oil for our lanterns. Raise us up, Lord God. We have no life. We are not Your bride. We are not Your people. Say to us, "Ami." For though we have not been Your people we shall be Your people. Go to the valley of dry bones and say, "arise!" Let flesh be put back onto us. Let life be breathed back into us. Give us a desire for unity and truth. Grant us to have softened hearts and willing spirits. Let there be revival in America. I speak to both left and right. Let there be a search for truth. Change the polarized tone lest we fall into the hands of the enemy. You are our only hope.

Use THE GUIDE, Father. Use it as a tool for blessing and not cursing. Let those who speak truth, whether it is from the left or right, enter wisdom from on high. Help us raise up officials in every part of the country that will lead us well, that will not divide, that will not lie, that will serve faithfully, that will improve our world, that will lead wisely and energetically. Be pleased with us, Lord, because we have been renewed by Your grace. And let Your grace be seen in other nations. Let Your light shine so that other nations will want this same kind of government, ruled by people, good people, honest people, wise people.

Grant Your special anointing and grace on THE GUIDE and on those who use it. It is just a thing, Lord. Place it into faithful and capable hands and be pleased with Your work.

Lord, maybe it is not Your will for America to have a revival of truth and unity, a healing of wounds, an era of peace. Maybe THE GUIDE will be ignored. I have made many efforts in my life to do good things and all of my work has been destroyed. I have grown accustomed to failure. I humbly offer this endeavor to You, Heavenly Father. I thought I heard from You. But I am very bad at hearing Your voice. If You will not bring help I will conclude I was deceived again. I will conclude I was wrong. I didn't hear from You. I heard from my own too-active imagination, or from the devil. You see the sacrifice of my time. I could have spent more time with the boys and with Lisa. But I just sit here typing.

Of course, that is what You made me to be, a writer. Instead, You have me driving. I listen to the radio. I pray. But I am not with them when I do that. THE GUIDE could be a way to work from home if I could be head moderator. That is all I want. I want You to bless it and put money into it so I can have a salary doing what You wired me for, staying at home with Lisa and the boys doing it. Can You bless that desire? Can You grant that request? They need me to be here with them. And they need me to have a better salary. If You say that I have destroyed my family can I turn it back on You? I pray for them to You. You are our provider. Whether I can work here from home is all up to You.

Father, don't put me through the stress of sacrificing my family for THE GUIDE any longer. Let it be a source of income sufficient to pay all our bills so I no longer work outside the home. Take any time I have put into it and turn all that into time I will spend with my family 100 fold. Lord, restore all ouir lost fortunes. I won't cling to the blessings of this earth. I will be grateful to You. I am anxious to celebrate and enjoy a relief from our sorrows. I want to see Lisa smile. I want the boys to have a testimony. Heal Lisa also of her hemipelgia. Heal her dead brain cells. Keep down any swelling. Don't let the devil attack again.

Father, I have had an exceptionally hard life, almost like Job, almost like Joseph or Jacob, or David under Saul. But You are faithful. And You will bring my time of trials to an end. You will not make all of my work to be fruitless. You will use my failures as stepping stones to my success. I pray that THE GUIDE will be that success. I pray for a time of refreshing for our family. Heal us so we can heal others. Thank You, Father. I trust You. I know You will do this. And if You don't, it is only because You have something even better. I lay all these things at Your feet. I know I am loved. My heart praises You, Heavenly King, Good Friend.