[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 19042]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr., First Baptist Church of 
Paschall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, offered the following prayer:
  God, we honor You today as both omnipotent and omnipresent. We now 
beseech You to bless these our halls in which the affairs of state are 
conducted.
  We pray especially for every Member of this Congress. We seek for 
them wisdom that will help them at all times discern right from wrong. 
We seek for them passion for this Nation and for all of its people. We 
seek for them, oh, Lord, judgment in the passage of the laws which will 
establish justice, freedom, and equality throughout the land.
  We seek for Members of Congress special concern for our children, 
especially those who are hungry and homeless and living in poverty, and 
whose parents are incarcerated.
  God we acknowledge Your mighty handiwork in the evolution of this 
Nation and pray now for Your continued protection. We pray today 
especially for the men and women of our Armed Forces. We pray for Your 
divine protection of them, and for the safety and comfort of their 
families.
  Now, Lord, grant to this Congress at this extraordinary time in our 
history an extra measure of Your blessing, that they may guide this 
Nation with righteousness and justice. May Divine Providence always 
guide them as Your will be done on Earth as in heaven. In the name of 
the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we pray, and for His sake. Amen.

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