[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13022]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Rev. Thomas A. Rhodes, Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Folsom, 
California, offered the following prayer:
  We call on You, Heavenly Father, from this historic Chamber today, 
asking Your wisdom and guidance be with these women and men who serve 
with honor and diligence, this courageous Nation of those ``yearning to 
breathe free.'' Grant Your gracious protection and tender care to them, 
their staffs and families.
  Lord, grant also Your safety for those who stand and protect us and 
preserve the cause of liberty as they serve in our country's Armed 
Forces. May they and their families be under Your constant, watchful 
and loving eye.
  Father, the Statue of Liberty arrived on our shores on this day in 
1885. She stands as a beacon of liberty and hope for this Nation and 
the world. In the same way, the cross of Your Son Jesus Christ stands 
to remind us of the liberty He won, for all who call on His name, as we 
do now. Amen.

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