[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 28333]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend John Boyles, President, Faith Prepared Network, 
Washington, DC, offered the following prayer:
  O Lord God, may Your wisdom and Your Spirit be present here today and 
in this new week to guide and to bless deliberations here made by 
Members.
  Give strength to all who labor here, O Lord, to preserve and to serve 
and to prepare to protect the life and security of our Nation and its 
people. Grant, O Lord, resolve to apply the lessons of wisdom and of 
faith to decisions here made that all would be strengthened, both 
materially and spiritually, as one Nation under Your name, O God.
  And in times and places of peril for our Nation outside these walls, 
we would pray now for Your protection for those who work to make our 
Nation secure, abroad in service and within Nation's bounds, and that 
in this land, that statehouse and courthouse, and sites of Nation's 
history, or place of country's commerce would be shielded from harm, 
and that houses of worship would be sanctuaries of safety and security, 
all to the end that freedom and faith would flourish unto new 
generations.
  And preserve here, O Lord, in this very place, these Chambers, and 
dome, these places of work and halls of history, and grant, O Lord, 
Your own strength to those who here deliberate and discuss, debate and 
decide; for the good of all the people of our land, and to Your glory, 
O great God. Amen.

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