[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5197-5198]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend David Harmon, Big Emory Baptist Church, Harriman, 
Tennessee, offered the following prayer:
  Our Father: I wish I had the vocabulary of angels. I wish, my Father, 
that I could speak the words of Heaven today to express what I feel in 
my heart. We thank You so much for our great Nation. We praise You for 
the wonderful things that You have done for us down through these 
years.
  My Father, our Lord, we need and seek Your face in our Nation and 
pray that Your kind hand be upon these men and women who represent this 
great Nation here today.
  Soon I am sure that these folks will forget me, but I hope there is 
never a moment that we forget You, Lord.
  My Lord, You know our major needs, so I will not attempt to pray for 
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specifically. However, I pray that Your will be done in this place 
today, as it is in Heaven.
  My Lord, we indeed seek Your input and guidance in every decision. We 
also pray that You will bring harmony to our Nation and peace to our 
world.
  Heal our land, heal our people and saturate our hearts with the 
greatest love and compassion the world could ever know in our Lord 
Jesus Christ. And it is in His precious and holy name that we pray. 
Amen.

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