[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 29, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S5439]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, offered the following 
prayer:
  Almighty God, this week we remember nightmares, to reaffirm our 
dreams. On this Holocaust Remembrance Day--during this week we have set 
aside--our Nation recalls victims of the Holocaust: a Holocaust brave 
Americans took up arms to fight and many gave their lives to end. And 
so, before this session starts, and during a time when our brave men 
and women still risk their lives for better times, we pray the day will 
come when the lesson of this horror, the lessons of all nightmares, 
help make our dreams of peace come true.
  From the Holocaust we learn: when human beings deny humanity in 
others, they destroy humanity within themselves. When they reject the 
human in a neighbor's soul, then they unleash the beast, and the 
barbaric, in their own hearts.
  And so, remembering, we pray: if the time has not yet dawned when we 
can proclaim our faith in God, then let us say at least that we admit 
we are not gods ourselves. If we cannot yet see the face of God in 
others, then let us see, at least, a face as human as our own.
  You taught us through the Bible--taught that life might be a blessing 
or a curse: the choice is in our hands. So many people, so many 
peoples, have felt the curse of life too filled with cruelty, violence, 
and hate. As Americans we pray--we vow--to keep alive the dream of 
better times; to keep our faith that we can be, will be, a force for 
good; a force for hope; a force for freedom; a blessing, not a curse--
to all our people; to all the world.
  And may we say, Amen.

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