[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 240]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Andrew Walton, Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, Washington, 
D.C., offered the following prayer:
  God of light and life, we give thanks for the gift of the day, a day 
which stands on the threshold of possibility and potential for the 
presence and power of love--love ensconced in every human at creation, 
love which we are called to share with one another as well as with 
creation itself.
  As we begin an historic weekend of service, celebration and 
inauguration, fill us with Your creative imagination to find our way to 
reconciliation where there is separation, to mercy where there is 
judgment, and to peace where there is violence.
  Hold each of us, our leaders, our Nation and our earth, in Your 
eternal care.
  Amen.

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