[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9426]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Alisa Lasater Wailoo, Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, 
Washington, D.C., offered the following prayer:
  Almighty and most compassionate God, during this ordinary pro forma 
session, remind us of Your extraordinary love:
  Your love for each person working in these halls. We give You thanks 
for their gifts, graces, and sacrifices of time. Be with their families 
as they are here working for us.
  Your love for the common citizen who may never walk these halls but 
carries the weight of decisions made here. Keep them in the forefront 
of our minds.
  Your love for those in dire need. Use us to speak for those who have 
no voice.
  Your love for each child in our global family, no matter if they call 
You Abba, Yahweh, Allah, or do not call on You at all. Show us ways to 
work with one another that we too can represent Your kingdom come on 
Earth as it is in heaven.
  May Your extraordinary love impact each ordinary task this day. In 
the name of the one who loves us more than we can imagine, amen.

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