Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, U.S. Navy Chaplain (Ret)., Washington DC
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Date of Prayer: 2019-11-29
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Date of Prayer: 2019-11-29
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Opening Prayer Given by the Guest Chaplain: |
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Almighty God,
we pray, reflect, meditate in different ways, but come together to give thanks. This Thanksgiving week we acknowledge times are hard: hostility and tension fill our airwaves and our lives. But Thanksgiving is a choice: Give thanks, build on, moments that give hope; or give up, succumbing to despair. |
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On this House floor last week
Congressman John Lewis walked across the aisle, honoring, embracing, Senator Johnny Isakson with simple but inspiring words: “I will come over to meet you, brother.” When we see another not as other, but instead as brother, sister, neighbor, that is cause for thanks. |
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During holidays some feast
and some go hungry — not for bread alone, but for kindness and for hope. When words and actions bridge a gap; when character and decency touch our hearts; that is cause for thanks. God, help us give thanks. Celebrate good. And hold on to faith that better times will come. |
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May we say, Amen.
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116th Congress, 1st Session
Issue: Vol. 165, No. 190 — Daily Edition (November 29, 2019)

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