[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16180]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Douglas Fisher, Grace Episcopal Church, Millbrook, New York, 
offered the following prayer:
  Gracious God, these elected leaders of our Nation gather together 
today in anticipation of Your guidance. They want to do what is right 
and good and holy. They want to be an inspiration to Your people in a 
trying time. Fill them with Your creative, dynamic Spirit.
  Outside these walls Your people--among them immigrants, the 
unemployed, the brave men and women of our Armed Forces--live in hope 
of wise decisions from this body. Indeed, Your whole creation itself is 
profoundly affected in so many ways by what happens here. Compassionate 
God, enlighten us, show us Your will, and give us the courage to 
fulfill it.
  At the end of this day, may the United States of America be closer to 
being a light unto the nations, a beacon of hope in this world. Living 
God, we ask Your blessing upon this House and upon this Nation. Amen.

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