[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18393]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Wednesday, September 10, 2008


  The House met at 10 a.m.
  Dr. David O. Dykes, Pastor, Green Acres Baptist Church, Tyler, Texas, 
offered the following prayer:
  Our Father, as the Psalmist prayed, we proclaim that ``the Lord is my 
strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him and I am helped.''
  Father, on this very day 7 years ago, we were not prepared for how 
our Nation and our lives would change within a single day. But since 
that day, we have found that Your grace is enough. We desperately 
depend upon Your future grace. We praise You that You are not a 
spectator God who sits in heaven uncaring and unconcerned. You are a 
loving Father who has numbered the hairs on our head. Your wounded feet 
still walk with us on the road of suffering. Your heart that was broken 
on the cross still feels our every pain.
  And so, Father, give to Your servants wisdom and grace. May Your 
kingdom come and Your will be done. We humbly ask in the name that is 
above every name, Your Son, our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen.

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