[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18036]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Louis V. Iasiello, President, Washington Theological 
Union, Washington, DC, offered the following prayer:
  Most good and gracious God, You bless us and guide us at every moment 
of our lives, and most especially at times of great trial and 
adversity.
  We thank You for the priceless gift of this great Nation and for the 
constitutional principles that guide it. We thank Thee for the many 
liberties that mark us as a blessed and a free people, and for myriad 
patriots who have worn the sacred cloth of military service throughout 
our proud history, citizen warriors who have defended those freedoms 
against the tyrannies of days past and those who continue the good 
fight this very day. We know their service honors You, for it stands as 
yet one more sign of the great bounty that is the United States of 
America.
  And so at this troublesome time of national emergency, in the current 
struggle against global extremism, we ask for the strength to face 
adversity with pure and sincere hearts that You might empower us to be 
a light for all the nations and build a world with justice and peace 
for men and women of good will everywhere. So help us God, amen.

                          ____________________