[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6164]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Dr. Charles B. Simmons, Memorial Drive United Methodist Church, 
Houston, Texas, offered the following prayer:
  Ever-present God: Humbly we pause to approach You. Help us to come 
before You in reverence that You may enter into our presence with 
power.
  In this hallowed House, we thank You for these Your servants who now 
guard its great legislative inheritance and seek to profit the Nation 
by wise governance. Endow each with a right understanding, pure 
purposes and sound speech. Enable them to rise above all personal 
agendas and party zeal to the nobler concerns of the public good. Give 
them vision and set their hearts afire with large resolves.
  Lord, lead them, that in all deliberations they may faithfully 
discharge the duties of their office and ever promote the health, 
safety and well-being of all whom they serve, for the good of the 
United States of America, the blessing of our world, and the glory of 
Your holy name. In His, we pray. Amen.

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