[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 208 (Thursday, December 26, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H12299]
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. And 
during these holy days--Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, more--some sing 
different songs, reflecting beauty, diversity of communities, cultures, 
faiths that make our Nation rich.
  Yet we Americans, we the people, share songs of unity beyond 
diversity. When we embrace our Nation's highest dreams, our lives 
become its songs.
  Of America, we sing: ``O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond 
the years.''
  Of America, we sing: ``O beautiful for heroes proved, in liberating 
strife who more than self, their country love, and mercy more than 
life.''
  God bless our lives, our leaders, with a patriot dream of love of 
country, love of mercy, freedom, justice--over party, over self; to 
cooperate, sacrifice, even compromise for the ``art of the possible,'' 
for the greater good.
  God bless America, we sing. Help us, we pray, forever make this 
Nation worthy of that blessing and that song.
  And let us say, Amen.

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