[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6469]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Dr. Ronald F. Christian, Lutheran Social Services, Fairfax, Virginia, 
offered the following prayer:
  Almighty and Creator God, the Sun never sets on Your world and it is 
always rising on Your people. Therefore, we offer our thanksgiving for 
Your steadfast love and mercy that is available to us again this day.
  We assign our gratitude to You for the blessings all around us that 
we so frequently mistake as the result of our own efforts and talents. 
And we pray, look kindly on Your people who seek health and hope, and 
the promise of a better day. Give Your favor to the suffering, the 
sorrowful, and the distressed in our land and may we paraphrase the 
words of Your poet and psalmist, this is the day You have made for all 
of us in which we are to live and work and make peace. Let us rejoice 
and be glad in it. Amen.

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