[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 13233-13234]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Reverend Clarence A. Williams, Greater Mt. Zion African Methodist 
Episcopal Church, St. Petersburg, Florida, offered the following 
prayer:
  Our Father and our God, we are grateful for this Nation, its 
vastness, its beauty. Truly, we live in a land of milk and honey. Help 
us, we pray, to protect and preserve it so that its grandeur and 
fullness always remains.
  We are grateful for our people. A Nation of many cultures, from many 
different cultures, from many different races, many different 
religions, help us to love each other.
  We are grateful for our history, a rich, gleaming heritage, a 
heritage born from a spirit to be free; one moment defending freedom, 
at other times struggling to find it. Forgive us for the times that we 
have missed the mark.
  We are grateful for our leaders. Lord, bless the Members of this 
Chamber and the leadership of our great Nation. Help these Members own 
our country's problems and work to find solutions.
  Finally, we are grateful for our future. Lord, bless the United 
States of America to be Your champion of righteousness that, supported 
by Thy powerful hand, we will establish Thy justice among nations and 
among men.

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  Amen.

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