[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7970]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Fred S. Hollomon, Chaplain, Kansas Senate, Topeka, 
Kansas, offered the following prayer:
  Heavenly Father, there are some time-honored proverbs and maxims 
which have been helpful in making decisions, but some of them are not 
always appropriate for our situation.
  For instance, there are some sleeping dogs which really should be 
awakened. There are some squeaking wheels which do not deserve any 
grease. There are some boats which not only need to be rocked but need 
to be sunk.
  Please give us the wisdom, O God, to decide which dogs to wake up, 
which squeaks to ignore, which boats to sink.
  I pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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