[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 102 (Tuesday, July 10, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H4706]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Joel Levenson, Congregation B'nai Jacob, Woodbridge, 
Connecticut, offered the following prayer:
  We invoke Your blessing for good judgment, wisdom, and understanding 
upon this House and all of its esteemed Members. Keep them mindful of 
our trust. Bestow upon them strength, determination, and willpower to 
do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
  Watch over the men and women who serve our country. For Your sake and 
ours, may our land be safe, secure, and a source of goodness and our 
lives blessed.
  May we repair this world and fill it with decency, justice, and 
peace, a world for which the prophet Isaiah prayed centuries ago when 
he said:

       Let justice well up as water and righteousness as a mighty 
     stream.

  May the words that we pray and the deeds that we do be acceptable 
before You, O Lord, our ever-present inspiration, rock, and redeemer.
  And let us say, Amen.

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