[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12953]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Mark Farr, Faith & Politics Institute, Washington, D.C., 
offered the following prayer:
  God of the nations, to this House is given leadership of a journey 
upon which the people of this land have embarked: A quest for a more 
perfect union, and from many to make one.
  To this House has been entrusted the hearts of a traveling, 
passionate, pilgrim people.
  O God, therefore, we pray Thee, be with those who pilot our course. 
Visit with those who keep watch in this place. To those who steer the 
ship of our Nation, endow a clear mind and a gentle tongue. Bestow a 
generosity of spirit to reason together, even while acknowledging great 
differences, that as we journey, we may not become strangers to each 
other but see in every life a valued fellow pilgrim, and may the 
Captain of our souls guide us into safe harbor at the last.
  In His name we pray. Amen.

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