[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 20224]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Galen E. Hahn, Evangelical United Church of Christ, 
Portsmouth, Ohio, offered the following prayer:
  Laus Deo. Praise be to God. Our elected Representatives, O God, work 
diligently on this day to represent the interests and the needs of the 
many peoples of this land. Holding a people together as one has been a 
challenge to former leaders of this land.
  May our congressional leaders be guided throughout their many efforts 
this day by the words of Washington's prayer that we all be disposed to 
do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before You, O God.
  Saving grace, we know, is not simply a personal attainment apart from 
community responsibility. It is also community accomplishment expressed 
in thankfulness to the Source from which it comes.
  Bless our leaders this day with thankfulness in their hearts. May 
their lives and their leadership give praise to You, O God. Amen.

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