The best advice my mother ever gave me --
don't forget to say your prayers.
Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert
in it with an attitude of thanksgiving. ~Colossians 4:2
When Dwight D. Eisenhower was Supreme
Commander of the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II, he was
faced with the responsibility of making one of the most far-reaching
decisions ever posed to a single man: the decision to change the date of
D-Day at the last moment. The consequences of a wrong decision were so
overwhelming, in his opinion, that he felt crushed by the weight of the
decision before him.
Still, he was the Supreme Commander and the
only man who could make the decision that would impact millions of lives.
He later wrote:
