[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10156]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Dr. Patricia Lyons, Christ Church, Washington, D.C., offered 
the following prayer:
  Loving God, in the dawn's early light, we come before You now, 
grateful for another day of Your mercies that are new every morning.
  Heal us of the wounds that we make and that we take in our world.
  Inspire us with wisdom and courage to face the complexity and 
immediacy of Your call to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk 
humbly.
  Lead us to discover Your sacred truth that to serve is perfect 
freedom; that You fill us and fuel us with Your love when we live as 
our brother and our sister's keeper.
  Plant in us the seeds of curiosity and compassion so that we grow in 
our ability to seek, to see, and to serve Your presence in all people. 
Form our lives to listen, our hearts to heal, our selves to serve, and 
our imaginations to envision our role in Your dreams for our world.
  We pray this in Your most holy Name.
  Amen.

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