ROCK SPRINGS — The stylized metallic letters reading “In God We Trust” in the Rock Springs City Council Chambers were a donation by the city’s mayor, who wants to remind people of a higher power that people can rely upon.

Mayor Max Mickelson said he personally purchased the letters and donated them to the city.

“That is something that I think everyone can agree that these are particularly trying times,” Mickelson said during Tuesday’s Council meeting. “People are very stressed. People are struggling.”

He said the phrase serves as a reminder that while the Council wrestles with budgets and other business, “there’s certainly a higher power that we can rely on to help guide us through these things.”