[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 58 (Monday, March 29, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1697]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Alisa Lasater Wailoo, Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, 
Washington, D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Listening Lord, what a privilege it is to carry everything, 
everything to You in prayer.
  Oh, how easy it is to allow these prayers to feel pro forma. In the 
stillness, help us hear You call us by name, not first as Member, 
staffer, clerk, lobbyist, unpaid activist, or any earthly title, but 
rather, as Your beloved child.
  Share with us, God, both about our own hopes, dreams, trials or 
tribulations, and the work You have for us today. Speak to any trauma, 
be that from individual pains or the insurrection through which this 
whole House suffered together. Empower us to be trustworthy companions 
to anyone struggling, those in our own office, in our home, around our 
district, and across the aisle.
  In this pro forma prayer, open us to real conversation with You, both 
now and throughout this congressional session so that we, like You, on 
that first Passover, might hear the cries of Your people, and like 
Jesus at the cross, may bear one another's burdens.
  Amen and amen.

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