[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 2, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H2945]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Dr. Lora F. Hargrove, Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Rockville, 
Maryland, offered the following prayer:
  Let us draw nigh unto God that God may also draw nigh unto us.
  O God, author of all mercy and the provider of all peace, in times of 
uncertain and sometimes unrelenting national and global difficulties, 
look with favor upon these women and men who seek to serve with 
integrity from the people's House and bless them.
  As the diligent work to silence ideological stalemates, to give voice 
to Ubuntu--shared humanity toward others--concretize concerns for all 
Americans, especially the multitude of the marginalized.
  Help us all to understand the clarion call to be unified, not 
uniform; to embrace diversity, despite racial, religious, and gender 
differences, knowing that difference is never synonymous with 
deficience.
  Grant that all who are downcast and downtrodden be uplifted by Your 
unifying and amazing grace.
  We ask this in the name of the One who is the creator of us all.
  Amen.

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