[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12719-12720]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Matthew Schramm, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Bay City, 
Michigan, offered the following prayer:
  Holy and merciful God, maker of Heaven and Earth, we come before You 
in thanksgiving for Your many blessings.
  For the liberty to worship freely and live securely, for the freedom 
to pursue Your will for our lives, and for the honor of service to the 
peoples and nations of the Earth, we give You thanks.
  We thank You that we live in a land of opportunity, and we pray that 
You would help us to be mindful of opportunities to help, to share, to 
protect, to welcome, and to proclaim what is just and what is good.
  We ask Your blessing on this House, this government, and all those 
who serve the common good. By Your Holy Spirit, grant that they might 
have the courage to do just that; and may all that we do or say give 
honor and glory to You, Almighty Father, now and forever.
  Amen.

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