[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13944]
[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:
  As vacations and recesses draw to a close, we give thanks for the 
gift of rest and recreation afforded us while so many in our country 
and world have spent those same days in fear and suffering.
  May we leave business as usual in the shadows of yesterday, seeking 
to shine with renewed purpose, inspired wisdom, and transformative 
action.
  May every person associated with these Halls of power remember their 
calling as public servants to humbly hold the hopes, dreams, and trust 
of people from every walk of life in every State, city, town, village, 
and neighborhood of our country and world.
  As numerous streams of opinion, interest, and need flow into the 
procedures, process, and decisions of this day and days ahead, may 
there be wisdom and patience to allow them to find their way to pools 
and ponds of peace, rivers of mercy, and eventually oceans of 
compassion and common good for all people.
  Amen.

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