National Day of Prayer: Gov. Rick Scott, Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll to Attend Service

Gov. Rick Scott and Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll will attend the National Day of Prayer Worship Service at noon Thursday in the Capitol Courtyard.

It is estimated that more than 2 million people attended more than 30,000 National Day of Prayer observances organized by approximately 40,000 volunteers in 2010.

At state capitols like ours in Tallahassee, at county courthouses, on the steps of city halls, and in schools, businesses, churches and homes, people stop their activities and gather for prayer.

The annual event has great significance for us as a nation. It enables us to recall and to teach the way in which our Founding Fathers sought the wisdom of God when faced with critical decisions. It stands as a call to us to humbly come before our God, seeking His guidance for our leaders and His grace upon us as a people.

The unanimous passage of the bill establishing the National Day of Prayer as an annual event, signifies that prayer is as important to our nation today as it was in the beginning.

Like Thanksgiving or Christmas, this day has become a national observance placed on all Hallmark calendars and observed annually across the nation and in Washington, D.C. In 2010, local, state and federal observances were held from sunrise in Maine to sunset in Hawaii, uniting Americans from all socio-economic, political and ethnic backgrounds in prayer for our nation.
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