[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 71 (Tuesday, May 1, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3745]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Dr. Dan C. Cummins, Peoples Church, Jacksonville, Texas, 
offered the following prayer:
  Lord, make us instruments of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let 
us sow love; where there is injury, let us grant pardon; where there is 
doubt, let us build faith; where there is despair, let us restore one's 
hope.
  Father, make us vessels of Your joy. Let the sowers of Thy grace 
remain in the field, lest nefarious winds scatter hate and despair.
  Jesus, make us bearers of Your light to dispel any darkness so our 
house is kept swept, lest our joy become lost. Let this House become as 
thine, a house of prayer.
  Oh, Divine Master, grant that we may not so much seek to be 
understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in 
giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that You pardon us. For it 
was in dying that You gave us eternal life.
  In Jesus' name, amen.

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