Today is the 75th annual National Day of Prayer. It began in 1952 when Reverend Billy Graham stood on the steps of the United States Capitol and challenged Congress to pass legislation creating a national day of prayer in America. Congress did so just two months after Graham’s challenge. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation designating the first Thursday of May as the National Day of Prayer. For more than a decade, Vonette Bright organized the annual observances. In 1991, she handed the leadership of the National Day of Prayer Task Force to my friend, Shirley Dobson. Jim and Shirley Dobson worked diligently for 25 years expanding National Day of Prayer events across the country. Today’s observance began this morning in Washington, D.C., with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner leading a service in Statuary Hall inside the Capitol Building.