[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13842]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend J. Cletus Kiley, President, The Faith & Politics 
Institute, Washington D.C., offered the following prayer:
  O God, we bow our heads humbly, gathered in this hallowed Chamber at 
the beginning of a new day. Here, in this place, our faith and our 
politics meet. Our work is about the just ordering of our society. And 
so at the beginning of this day we beg a portion of Your spirit that we 
might fully understand the authentic requirements that such a just 
society demands.
  We beg a fuller portion of Your spirit to strengthen us so that our 
work is always at the service of love, and thus, in the face of human 
suffering, we may become a consolation; where there is isolation, we 
may become community; where there is need, we may become abundance; 
where there is threat, we may become strength.
  Today, O God, stretch us beyond our personal limits that we might 
fulfill Your divine plan and may serve the common good of our people. 
Amen.

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