When we take our meals, there is grace. When I take a draught of water, I wlways pause, as my palate receives the refreshment, to lift up my heart to God in thanks and prayer… Whenever I drop a letter into the box at the post office I send a petition along with it for God’s blessing upon its mission, and upon the person to whom it is sent. When I break the seal upon a letter, I stop to pray to God that he might prepare me for its contents, and make it a messenger of good. When I go to the classroom, and wait for the arrangement of the cadets in their places, that is my time to intercede with God for them. And so of every familiar act of the day.
Stonewall Jackson, They Called Him Stonewall: A Life of Lt. General T.J. Jackson by Burke Davis (New York: Fairfax Press, 1988) p.130 as quoted in One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America by James P. Moore, Jr. Doubleday, 2005. p.178
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