[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2327]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Imam Abdullah Antepli, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 
offered the following prayer:
  Peace be with you all. Please join me in prayers.
  O God of all nations, look with favor upon this esteemed Congress. 
Guide these important decision makers with Your divine light. Be their 
source of strength and comfort. Enable them to serve You and glorify 
Your name by serving the citizens of this great Nation and to the 
entire humanity, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, or religion.
  O God, make them Your instruments to deliver Your divine mercy and 
compassion. Bless them with Your openness and humility. Fill their 
hearts and minds with passion and determination to improve the quality 
of the lives of their fellow human beings. Grant them success in their 
efforts to wipe out poverty, ignorance, racism, and hate in this 
country and beyond.
  O God, make these women and men peacemakers, healers and bridge 
builders, so urgently needed in our wounded and broken times. Give them 
the strength that they need to keep what needs to be kept. Give them 
the courage that they need to change what needs to be changed. Give 
them the wisdom that they need to distinguish one from the other.
  O God, if we forget You, do not forget us. In Your most holy and 
beautiful name we pray. Amen.

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