[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1688]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Dean Curry, Life Center Church, Tacoma, Washington, offered 
the following prayer:
  Father, what an honor it is to be in Your presence here today. We 
celebrate this morning what You have done through the United States of 
America.
  We acknowledge the hand of providence in our history and the force of 
inspiration for our future.
  Be with us here now most significantly in our present that we could 
see what others do not see, that we could do what others fear to do, so 
that we could change what others are afraid to change.
  We are reminded that we are so small and You are so big. Our problems 
are daunting, and our responsibilities are many. But we look to You 
today, to Your principles and to Your goodness, that we could be 
everything You designed for us to be, that we could do everything You 
planned for us to do, that others may be free.
  Today, may every decision made, every plan contemplated, be sprinkled 
with Your grace and be inspired from Heaven. Change us; change our 
minds and our hearts that we may change our destiny and the destiny of 
others both here and around the world.
  I pray all of this with respect to all faiths in the name of Jesus of 
Nazareth.
  Amen.

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