[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 136 (Tuesday, September 3, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H5025]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Hannah Spiro, Hill Havurah, Washington, D.C., offered the 
following prayer:
  Divine judge, source of all life, may this grief we feel, this rage 
we feel each time a beautiful young soul is taken, serve some purpose.
  Not the cruelty of what they went through, not their senseless 
deaths--for these horrors, there is no possible silver lining.
  But may our grief, our rage, our intrusive thoughts get us somewhere 
that we need to be: to an insistence that the killing ends; to a 
clarity that peace and justice must go hand in hand.
  As it says in Psalm 85: ``Loving kindness and truth will meet; 
justice and peace will kiss.''
  May every single person on this sacred Earth live to see that day.
  And let us say, amen.

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