I just spent two days in meetings with senior executives from companies all over the country. We were all gathering in Washington DC to meet with Congressmen/women/people and their staffs to discuss what needs to be done to support our young men and women in harm's way. I had one of my staff with me.  The mix was about 80 percent men and 20 percent women.  Mind you, all of these people are presidents, vice presidents, CEOs, CFOs, COOs of their companies, so you can imagine the average age was...well, about midcentury.  We met on Wednesday evening, had a couple of speakers from Congress, spent some time talking, then we grouped together and went to dinner.  All total there was 174 of us representing 41 states. All of us are in the business of making things to support the war fighter or supporting those makng things (like me).  Wednesday evening dinner ended about midnight. I stayed in town instead of making the drive home. Our meetings were to start again at 6:30 this morning.

 I share all this so you have a sense of the demographics in the room for our breakfast meeting the next morning. It was in one of the conference rooms at the Grand Hyatt in downtown DC.  We all gathered and just at 7:00 the person who was facilitating the meeting stood up at the podium and asked us all to rise to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the US Flag. There was no hesitation, no snickering, nobody stayed seated.  Everyone rose and joined in unison. Then, the facilitator asked us to remanin standing for a time of prayer. Another person came to the podium and asked the Lord to bless our meeting, our discussions, our leaders, our soldiers, and, oh by the way, the food, too.  It was awesome. At the end several of us called out Amen.

You won't read this in the press. We all wanted to ask God's blessings on what we were doing. We all wanted God to be in the middle of our discussions with Congress and their staff. We all wanted God to bless the works of our hands.

...and I am confident He will.