[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2785]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Gene Hemrick, Washington Theological Union, Washington, 
D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Lord, in turbulent times throughout our country and the world, may we 
bring to those who seek peace the loving, uplifting heart that rings 
through the prayer of St. Francis:
  Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.
  Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, 
pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; 
where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
  O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as 
to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. 
For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are 
pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
  Amen.

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