[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 20]
[House]
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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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          HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Wednesday, October 24, 2007

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Reverend Allen Novotny, Gonzaga College High School, Washington, 
DC, offered the following prayer:
  Lord, we gather here this morning, representatives of millions, to 
use Your gifts of the power of words, of debate and of laws to serve 
their needs. Yet, we dare ask for even more, the awesome power of Your 
Spirit.
  And so we pray, rush upon us, O Spirit of God. From this time, rush 
upon us: like living water, like leaping fire, like fresh wind through 
an open window.
  For this time, rush upon us, O Holy Spirit: with wisdom and 
knowledge, with understanding and counsel, with wonder and with 
recognition and awe. Just in time, rush upon us, O Spirit of God: in 
life-giving words, in songs for the powerless, in a passion for 
service. At this time, rush upon us, O Holy Spirit: this hopeful time, 
this planning time, this renewing time, this new time, this full time, 
all the time. Rush upon us, O Spirit of God.

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