We're forever indebted for these many kindnesses and generosity. This week you have invited us into your homes and your hearts, and for that you have our enormous gratitude. Today, you have welcomed us into the Lord's house. Thank you for taking our NASA family and our colleagues from so many different agencies and departments across the entire Federal Government into your homes and embracing them in this community. We at NASA are so grateful to the Lufkin community for organizing this heartfelt tribute to seven brave heroes, the intrepid crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia. SEAN O'KEEFE: Thank you, Reverend Bush, for that inspiring prayer. Your goodness has not been diminished one iota because of our tragedy, and thus, we turn to you, Father, in repentance, hope and assurance that has more than adequately been provided for us through the saving faith we enjoy in Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen. Provide, we pray, the answers and missing pieces to the puzzle for NASA, that they might clearly find and determine and remedy beyond doubt the Columbia tragedy so that our exciting and necessary space program may successfully continue without loss of additional life for the betterment of mankind everywhere across the planet, and favor us with your comforting presence during this memorial service that our torn emotions and troubled spirits might be soothed with your healing balm. We honor their lives cut abruptly short and reverence their precious memories. May we never forget the selfless sacrifice of this courageous pioneering space crew. Senators and Congressmen and women, and our law enforcement agencies from coast to coast, and lavish emboldened strength and courage upon our brave servicemen and women of the military who may ultimately be called upon to lay down their lives and shed precious blood to preserve our democratic freedom in the days to come.īless extra special grace upon the astronauts' grieving families who will continue to struggle with the loss of their loved ones long after the rest of us have returned to the routine of our lives. Bush, during these trying days, his Cabinet, our United States Congress, our own Governor Perry and his Cabinet, our State and U.S. Undergird with extraordinary wisdom, our President, George W. We offer you our deepest gratitude for sympathizing and empathizing with us during our national grief by providing your divine mercy and grace to help us in our hurting time of need as we contritely seek your face.įather, we find ourselves once again experiencing the valley of the shadow of death, a tragedy of nightmarish proportion that has not only affected America, but also the whole globe, with sobering quietness, through the loss of our seven heroic astronauts, through the painful grieving of their broken families, through a superb NASA team that has suffered a severe setback in space exploration. You are sustaining us now in the present and because of your more than thirty thousand Biblical promises, we know you will continue to providentially be there for us in the future and as we honor and serve you. Almighty God, to us as a nation you have truly been our help in ages past.
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