[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10699]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Right Reverend John B. Lipscomb, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of 
Southwest Florida, Parrish, Florida, offered the following prayer:
  Eternal God, Sovereign and Lord of all, we commend to You those who 
serve in the several branches of the government of our Nation. 
Especially we pray this day for the representatives of the people of 
the United States gathered in this Chamber to seek and to do Your will 
for those who elected them to this high office. We offer You grateful 
Thanksgiving for all who serve in this House with honor and integrity. 
Guard them from the presumption of self-importance and self-interest. 
Give them clarity of vision and thought. Renew in them a passion for 
justice and freedom. Endue them with the courage needed to guard the 
dignity and extend the blessings of liberty to all the people of our 
great Nation and of the whole Earth. All this we ask in Your holy Name. 
Amen.

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