[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 19663]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Jonathan Falwell, Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, 
Virginia, offered the following prayer:
  Our Heavenly Father, we thank You for our great Nation. We thank You 
for what You have done to make this Nation a lighthouse to the world 
and a beacon of hope to people everywhere.
  We know, as our forefathers knew and as the Scriptures tell us, that 
righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people. And 
so, today, we ask Your forgiveness for the sins that we as a people, 
and we as a Nation, have committed.
  Today we seek Your wisdom and Your guidance in all that takes place 
in this room. We ask You to be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto 
our path. We ask You to protect the men and women who serve here in 
this place. We ask You to protect the men and women who serve our 
Nation around the world today and are in harm's way. We ask You to lead 
them as they lead us.
  And above all, we ask You to continue to bless this great land that 
we call home. And in Jesus' name we pray.
  Amen.

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