[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11542]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend John Boyles, President, Faith Prepared Network, National 
Capital Presbytery, Washington, D.C., offered the following prayer:
  O Lord God, we come before You now to ask that You would bless and 
sanctify the service of this body on this day.
  O Lord, bring both wisdom and knowledge to bear upon this Chamber's 
governance, that its rules of law, its business, done by and for this 
Nation's people, through those representing them here today, might in 
turn be an inspiration and example to those of other lands, who can 
now, in new time of liberation, begin to act together on a new path of 
freedom. May what is done here today in this body be a model for all of 
righteous governance.
  May this Chamber and its offices, its Members and staffs, have Your 
strengthening, O God, for their work and draw upon Your guidance for 
their planning, Your vision for their path, Your compassion for their 
service to the people of our Nation. Amen.

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