Happy Birthday To America

MY HOME SWEET HOME. GOD BLESS AMERICA, LAND THAT I LOVE. STAND BESIDE HER, AND GUIDE HER. THROUGH THE NIGHT WITH A LIGHT FROM ABOVE.
Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, Chaplain, US Senate
Lord God of hosts, God of the nations: By your grace and in Your patience You have allowed this our land once again to celebrate its birth, its primal guest for liberty, justice, and equity. And we are grateful.And once again by Your grace and in Your patience You have called this House– responsible men and women who are equally faithful and unfaithful, righteous and unrighteous before You, each other, and the people– You have called this House to the exercise of its solemn task of the legislation of law and the formation of the Nation.

Remind these Your servants that liberty, justice, and equity remain ahead of this Nation as tasks yet to be fulfilled and not as goals already reached.
Maintain before us a clear dedication to the needs of those in our midst who are on the outside because of age, ill health, race, sex, poverty, and urban or rural degredation.
And consecrate anew this Nation to the exercise of imaginative and sacrificial leadership in a restless and violent world which still struggles for authentic justice, peace, and a safe home in Your creation.
Accept now, O God, the labors of this day and the frail lives of Your servants in this House. To You be all honor and glory, world without end. Amen.
 
(Source: Congressional Record-House, 102d Congress, second session, 138/99, Wednesday July 7, 1992
 

One Response to “Happy Birthday To America”

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