{"id":23981,"date":"2026-03-11T15:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/the-day-a-train-station-knelt-in-prayer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:48:01","slug":"the-day-a-train-station-knelt-in-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.guideposts.org\/articles\/prayer\/holiday-prayers\/the-day-a-train-station-knelt-in-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day a Train Station Knelt in Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This story first appeared in the June 1958 issue of <\/em>Guideposts<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people criss-crossed back and forth through Washington\u2019s Union Station that morning back in 1944. The high-ceilinged central waiting room was alive with a tense excitement that was reflected on the faces and in the quick footsteps of the wartime commuters coming to the capital. There was a sense of expectancy in the air. For weeks, months, one word had been in people\u2019s minds. It hung in the air, almost touchable, just out of reach: Invasion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"home-banner-stn\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ada4f91 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"ada4f91\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-72e6e8eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"72e6e8eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I stood there on this morning of June 6, 1944, waiting for a friend and scanning the faces of the commuters as they poured out of their trains and into the station. There was no announcement on the loudspeaker, no Extras were shouted, there was no visible source of the news: but suddenly the scurrying and the criss-crossing stopped, the loud hum of a thousand conversations ceased, the news passed from friend to friend, from stranger to stranger: \u201cWhat is it? What\u2019s happened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Invasion\u2019s begun\u2026 they\u2019re landing <a href=\"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/gods-grace\/the-good-soldier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Normandy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A hush fell over the waiting room. I was aware of little things\u2014the soft tread of the few people still walking, the stream of sunlight that fell into the waiting room as it does <a href=\"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/faith-prayer-devotions\/stories-of-faith-faith-prayer-devotions\/miracles-at-the-cathedral-of-notre-dame-after-the-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a cathedral<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While I stood watching, it began. First it was a woman who, right there in the station, dropped to her knees and folded her hands; near her, a man knelt down. Then another, and another, until all around me people knelt in prayer before the hard wooden benches of Union Station.<\/p>\n<p>What were we praying for that morning of the Invasion? For Jim or for Franz, or for Giovanni\u2014or just for peace. Perhaps for no reason at all, except that in the hush we felt the <a href=\"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/prayer\/how-to-pray\/why-i-pray-with-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">need to pray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The quiet lasted for no longer than a few minutes. Then, slowly, the woman rose to her feet. The man next to her rose, too, cleared his throat and walked off rapidly as if he felt a sudden embarrassment. Within seconds the station was alive with movement and talk again. But for those of us who witnessed the hush, Union Station will always have a special meaning: we were there on the day the railroad station in Washington, D. C., became a house of worship.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you enjoy this story? Subscribe to <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/guidepostssub\"><strong>Guideposts<\/strong><\/a> <em>magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story first appeared in the June 1958 issue of Guideposts. 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