[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3097]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Bryan K. Finch, Chaplain, U.S. Coast Guard Training 
Center, Yorktown, Virginia, offered the following prayer:
  O Lord, we commend the interest of our dearest country to the 
protection of Your Almighty hand, especially in this day of new 
challenges and threats. Guide our leaders and this Congress to move 
with vigilance toward the tests ahead, and let them look beyond mere 
mortal understanding and seek wisdom and guidance from above. For what 
is decided here shall not remain here, but will impact the cause of 
freedom and those who love liberty across this world.
  Impress upon our hearts the summation of all the commands, ``To love 
the Lord our God, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.''
  Pour this truth into each heart in order that we may serve You and 
this country as servants of justice and mercy.
  O Lord, these who have the mighty task of superintending hope and 
peace and freedom in this land and in distant countries, I commit them 
into Thy holy keeping.
  In God's holy name this day we pray. Amen.

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