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Bowing to the American Flag. Literally.

patriotic prayer benchKurt Willems shared this interesting item he found on Amazon. In the product description it admonishes us to:

Submit yourself to the Prayer Bench and open up your life to receive more of God.

Hmmmmmm.

How about we just submit ourselves to God?

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