[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 20 (Monday, February 3, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1517]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Patrick J. Conroy, offered the following 
prayer:
  Eternal God, we give You thanks for giving us another day.
  Guide our minds, thoughts, and desires this day. By Your spirit, 
breathe into us a new spirit. Shape this Congress and our world 
according to Your design that we may fulfill Your will.
  Bless the Members of this people's House. Give them attentive hearts 
and open minds, that through the diversity of ideas, they might sort 
out what is best for this Nation.
  May their speech be deliberately free of all prejudice, that others 
might listen wholeheartedly. Grant that all dialogue be mutually 
respectful, surprising even the most jaded with the emergence of unity 
and justice.
  Bless us this day and every day. May all that is done here be for 
Your greater honor and glory.
  Amen.

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