[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17150]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Lieutenant Commander Robert Burns, Chaplain, United States Navy 
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Plantation, Florida, offered the 
following prayer:
  Heavenly Father, we praise You for You have blessed this land with a 
diverse multitude gathered from every nation, tribe, people, and 
language. You have bound us together with noble ideals of liberty, 
justice, equality, and yet we struggle to be one people, a unified 
Nation.
  We pray for all the Members of this House, asking You to bless them 
with wisdom and discernment to lead our people to reconciliation, to 
rebuild our Nation's confidence in justice, to restore our sense of 
equality. Free them from the divisive distractions of any lesser ideals 
that they may more powerfully serve the people as a House in one 
accord, making every effort to keep the unity of the people through the 
bond of peace.
  Bless also our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines deployed 
overseas as they continue to bring peace to this troubled world. We 
pray in Your Holy Name.
  Amen.

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