[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4793]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Tyrone Skinner, Pastor, Metropolitan Baptist Church, 
Altadena, California, offered the following prayer:
  Dear gracious God our savior, we spend these moments reverencing You 
as we invoke Your presence in this place so that sound judicious 
decisions will be made that will benefit our democracy. We admit our 
shortcomings and our need for Your guidance in all that is done in this 
place.
  We seek Your face to address racism, classism, sexism, and other 
discriminations that divide us and seek to devour the very core of our 
democracy. We lift especially the victims of Katrina and other natural 
disasters in our country that they may find peace and resolution to the 
quest for placement that should be theirs.
  Finally, we pray for our troops who fight for the cause of democracy 
in Iraq. We know You will not allow their fighting to be in vain. Thank 
you for hearing our prayer, and we now listen for Your voice to direct 
our paths.
  In the name of Him who has been given all power. Amen.

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