[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 17526-17527]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend W. Don Young, Senior Pastor, Heartland Worship Center, 
Paducah, Kentucky, offered the following prayer:
  My Lord God in heaven, the leaders of this Nation pause every day to 
acknowledge Your grace, Your mercy,

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and most of all Your blessings. They acknowledge by this exercise that 
this Nation was built on your principles.
  And Father God, it appears that we are the players that will 
determine the destiny of this beloved United States of America. Good 
people all over the world believe we are standing on a precipice at 
this moment in history.
  Either America renews her relationship with You, or we continue our 
moral free fall, which, sadly to say, will ultimately mean our demise. 
We, the pastors, political leaders, we just cannot allow that to 
happen. So God help us to guide this great people in such a way that 
You can bless America again.
  Please help us to honor You and You alone with the decisions that 
will be made today and in future sessions. It is in my Lord's name that 
I ask these things. Amen.

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