[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 12, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H1055]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Dr. Lance Watson, St. Paul's Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia, 
offered the following prayer:
  Gracious God, we gather today in this House of Representatives, in 
the people's House, to acknowledge that You alone are sovereign. Thank 
You that we share in a nation where life, liberty, and happiness are 
inalienable rights, rights which we hold as self-evident.
  We praise You for the responsibility we have to do justice, love 
mercy, and walk humbly with You. Give us the power to find needs and 
meet them, find problems and solve them, find hurts and heal them.
  For every elected official, we ask the blessings of civility, truth, 
wisdom, and grace. Even amid diversity, enable us to embrace unity. 
Open our hearts in courage and imagination that we might envision a 
better tomorrow where Your purpose will prevail on Earth as in Heaven.
  Let Your grace and favor rest upon us. In the matchless, marvelous, 
magnificent, majestic name that is above every name, we pray and give 
thanks.
  Amen.

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