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"Amen, and a woman" - Daily Congress Prayer, January 3, 2021, House guest chaplain Emanuel Cleaver:
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Congressional Record:
Reverend Emanuel Cleaver, II, St. James United Methodist Church,
Kansas City, Missouri, offered the following prayer:
Eternal God, noiselessly we bow before Your throne of grace as we
leave behind the politically and socially clamorous year of 2020. We
gather, now, in this consequential Chamber to inaugurate another
chapter in our roller coaster representative government. The Members of
this august body acknowledge Your sacred supremacy and, therefore,
confess that without Your favor and forbearance, we enter this new year
relying, dangerously, on our own fallible nature.
God, at a moment when many believe that the bright light of democracy
is beginning to dim, empower us with an extra dose of commitment to its
principles. May we, of the 117th Congress, refuel the lamp of liberty
so brimful that generations unborn will witness its undying flame. And
may we model community healing, control our tribal tendencies and
quicken our spirit that we may feel Thy priestly presence even in
moments of heightened disagreement. May we so feel Your presence that
our service here may not be soiled by any utterances or acts unworthy
of this high office. Insert in our spirit a light so bright that we can
see ourselves and our politics as we really are--soiled by selfishness,
perverted by prejudice and inveigled by ideology.
Now, may the God who created the world and everything in it bless us
and keep us. May the Lord make His face to shine upon us and be
gracious unto us. May the Lord lift up the light of His countenance
upon us and give us peace--peace in our families, peace across this
land and dare I ask, O Lord, peace even in this Chamber, now and
evermore. We ask it in the name of the monotheistic God and Brahma and
God known by many names by many different faiths.
Amen, and a woman.
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