[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10999]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Israel Zoberman, Congregation Beth Chaverim, Virginia Beach, 
Virginia, offered the following prayer:
  Our one God of life's blessings who brings us together to be one 
family, gloriously diverse and gratefully united through the divine 
commandments of loving kindness.
  In this House of Representatives' august Chamber of the most 
flourishing democracy, we give thanks to the awesome author of an 
endangered universe for the essential twin gifts of freedom and 
responsibility. May You in Your infinite goodness ever guide our 
elected and appreciated lawmakers who are entrusted with the American 
people's agenda and the safeguarding of our precious liberties.
  Mindful of living in our uncertain and unsettling world, let us 
reaffirm that the Creator's divinity and human dignity are inseparable, 
that he who upholds but one human life upholds a unique, irreplaceable 
universe of purpose and meaning.
  May blemishes turn into blessings, hatred into love, violence into 
vision, and pain into promise in a global village at Shalom's peace at 
last.
  Amen.

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