[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15787]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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            HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Thursday, July 15, 2004

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Reverend Jean Burch, Senior Pastor, Community Baptist Church, 
Pasadena, California, offered the following prayer:
  This is the day that the Lord has made, let us be glad and rejoice in 
it. Dear Lord, as we begin this day, we can rejoice because You are our 
hope. And as we pray, may we be reminded that our hope is not based on 
optimism but a blessed assurance that this Nation under God will find 
her destiny in God's love.
  I pray that the trust we have placed in the men and women of this 
House will prevail in the decisions that they make for this Nation. 
Speak to their hearts, Lord, through Your spirit that they may know 
Your will for Your people and our land. I pray that each man and woman 
in this room will not only know Your will, but that they may know You 
and the power of Your might.
  For Lord, it is You who is the God of our hope, the rope we take hold 
of in times of turmoil, the anchor that holds us steady in the time of 
storm; and You are our refuge when all else has failed. Now, today, and 
in the days to come, may the God of hope fill each of you with all joy 
and peace as you put your trust in Him. In the name of our Lord, we 
pray. Amen.

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