May 07 2009
TODAY IS MAY 7 aka A NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER
On D-Day June 6, President Roosevelt said “Let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be. And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee.”
The first Thursday in May was declared a National Day of Prayer. Many people no longer believe in God or Prayer and they have forgotten that this Nation was founded by God fearing and religious people.
“The Pilgrims at Plymouth relied on prayer during their first and darkest winter. Our founding fathers also called for prayer during the Constitutional Congress. In their eyes, our recently created nation and freedoms were a direct gift from God. And being a gift from God, there was only one way to insure protection-through prayer.”
My ancestor Dominic Everardus Bogardus was one of the first ministers in the New World. He was born in 1607 in Leyden, Netherlands and came to New Amsterdam in 1634 which now is known as New York City.
He married Anneka Jans on 29 Jan 1635 in the Dutch Church. I am descended from their oldest son Willem by his second marriage. There are portraits’ of both Anneka and Everardus hanging in the New York Historical Society. One of them might be a stained glass window, but they are very interesting portraits.
People ask what should be pray for –simply put: Our Nation, Our President as he needs all the help he can get; Our troops where ever they are, Our families; Our friends, Our Business, and also remember to give thanks for the things we have.
There are many Great and not so great events in History that happened on May 7th
2002 China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112
1995 Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
1977 103rd Kentucky Derby: Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins in 2:02.2 – Seattle Slew went on to become a Triple Crown winner.
1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
1914 U.S. Congress establishes mother’s day
1888 George Eastman patents “Kodak box camera”
1727 Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1700 William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:
‘With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird
flu and terrorist attacks. For those that prefer to think that a higher power is not watching over us…go ahead and delete this. For the rest of us…pass this on.”
