[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 16076-16077]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Morris Matthis, Christ United Methodist Church, Sugar Land, 
Texas, offered the following prayer:

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  Almighty God, who is the giver of every good and perfect gift and who 
has blessed us with this good land and fashioned us into one united 
people, grant wisdom to those whom in Your name we entrust the 
authority of government.
  Guide them, O God, in their deliberations and in their 
decisionmaking. Grant them the grace to see themselves as leaders who 
stand in the shadow of history. Bless them with the humility and 
insight of Abraham Lincoln, who said: ``I have been driven many times 
to my knees with the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to 
go.''
  Give them the assurance that when the hour is desperate and the way 
unclear, there is one to whom they can go, and then, O God, in Your 
Mercy, help them to go there.
  In the name of the One who is the Hope of the world, amen.

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