[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2630]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Chaplain Major Jim Higgins, Reserve Officer Association Chaplain of 
the Year, Powder Springs, Georgia, offered the following prayer:
  Loving Lord, we give You thanks that You are ever present with us, 
guiding our thoughts and our deliberations. In these difficult times we 
acknowledge before You that we are unable, in the strength of our own 
power, to guide this Nation that You have entrusted to us. So we pray 
for a sense of Your will and of Your presence. Along with the vision of 
what is right, give us the courage to act accordingly.
  As we gather today, Everlasting God, we pray for those whom we have 
sent into harm's way. Give to them Your divine protection. As the Great 
Physician, be with those who have been wounded and lay in beds of pain. 
We give You thanks for the valor of those who have paid the ultimate 
cost for freedom, and ask that You accept them into Your home, not made 
with hands, but eternal in the heavens, surrounding their loved ones 
with Your peace, which passes all understanding. All of this we ask in 
Your most holy and precious name.
  Amen.

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