"GRAPHIC memories "by mia i look, i glance, and i remember a thousand sights i always see sometimes a curse, at times a blessing my photoGRAPHIC memory i close my eyes and never sleep but it's my only reality some things i wish i did not keep but my photoGRAPHIC memory never allows me to forget the things i feel, things i need things i hate and i regret in my photoGRAPHIC memory always so vivid, so alive haunting images i see every tme i close my eyes a photoGRAPHIC memory sometimes i wish i couldn't think why can't i live my life with ease sometimes a curse, at times a blessing my photoGRAPHIC memories.  This Pastor has guts!!   Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:   "Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.   We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and call it Pluralism.   We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.   We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.   We have killed our unborn and called it choice.   We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.   We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.   We have abused power and called it politics.   We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.   We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.   We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.   Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.   Amen!"   The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest..   In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively.   The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and Korea.   Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, "The Rest of the Story," and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.   With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called "one nation under God."           Memorable Quotes: "No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women." - Ronald Reagan ................................................................... "Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan "Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U. S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan "I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U. S. Congress." - Ronald Reagan "The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan "Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."- Ronald Reagan "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan "The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan   "I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me . even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting." - Ronald Reagan "It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan  "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan  "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan