[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 190 (Friday, November 29, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H9183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff, Chaplain, U.S. Navy, Retired, Washington, 
D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we pray, reflect, meditate in different ways, but come 
together to give thanks.
  This Thanksgiving week we acknowledge times are hard: hostility and 
tension fill our airwaves and our lives. But Thanksgiving is a choice: 
give thanks for, build on, moments that give hope; or give up, 
succumbing to despair.
  On this House floor last week Congressman   John Lewis walked across 
the aisle, honoring, embracing, Senator Johnny Isakson with simple but 
inspiring words: ``I will come over to meet you, brother.''
  When we see another not as other, but instead as brother, sister, 
neighbor, that is cause for thanks.
  During holidays some feast and some go hungry--not for bread alone, 
but for kindness and for hope. When words and actions bridge a gap, 
when character and decency touch our hearts, that is cause for thanks.
  God, help us give thanks, celebrate good, and hold onto faith that 
better times will come.
  May we say, amen.

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