[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20551]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend W. Douglas Tanner, Jr., President, The Faith & Politics 
Institute, Washington, DC, offered the following prayer:
  As a deer longs for running streams, our souls long for Thee, O God. 
You have sent rain to fall gently and steadily upon this city, and its 
streams indeed are running.
  In this painfully momentous season, we dare to recall the words of 
the prophet Amos, when he speaks of Your desire for justice also to 
flow like water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
  Awaken us ever more fully, O Lord, to the streams of love, 
compassion, and courage that You continue to send as surely as the 
rain. Let those streams flow into us, among us and through us, that we 
may be the people--and the Nation--You would have us be.
  Amen.

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