[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6423]
[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 the gavel sounds and a new day of business begins, we pause to 
acknowledge the eternal, creative, redemptive spirit of life that 
unites all people, transcending political persuasion, personal bias, or 
cultural creed.
  We come seeking the wisdom of the ages that points us away from easy 
choices of rigid certitude that divide and separate but, rather, guides 
us toward challenging compromises of flexible possibility that connect 
and unite.
  May we seek a common good where all people know freedom, equality, 
justice, and mercy; a common good grounded in compassion, gratitude, 
and generosity. May we remember we are one human family in which the 
pain of one is the pain of all and the joy of one is the joy of all.
  May we find this common good in the conversations, deliberations, and 
achievements of this day and in the countless opportunities that come 
our way each and every day.
  Amen.

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