A National Day of Prayer

This is the National Day of Prayer. Petitions to God will be made not just from the ground but from the air is well. That’s because a group of pilots plan to fly and pray over every state capital today. There are thousand of other events planned around the theme of prayer for the nation as well. Some are meeting in churches, others on the steps of courthouses, some in parks. The National Day of Prayer was first officially observed more than 50 years ago. In 1952, Congress passed a law declaring a day of prayer should be observed on the first Thursday of each May.