[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12944]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Bill Kirlin-Hackett, Interfaith Task Force on Homelessness, 
Bellevue, Washington, offered the following prayer:
  Holy and gracious God, before You we humbly serve. We seek what is 
best and what makes for compassionate and reasoned leadership.
  We are blessed with the gift of differences that together, and that 
in unity, make us whole. Enable us to reconcile differences when at 
times such gifts separate us. Guide us toward the reconciliation that 
produces effective decisions, that builds engaged citizens, and that 
makes of us good neighbors to others less fortunate.
  These times call for our listening to each other with our minds and 
hearts, as one neighbor seeks what is best for another. You have shown 
us, O God, what is good; that is, to love justice, to seek kindness, 
and to walk humbly with Your strength made manifest among, between, and 
within us.
  May God thus be seen, may we thus be led, may we thus be known.
  Amen.

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