Spiking in various sectors of our nation. As we continue to consider social concerns about peace and justice in our community. As it is a time of high feeling and reaction, we ask your blessing of peace, patience, and good discernment in the days and weeks to come. Opinions and positions of interested parties are heightened. Calm our passions. That those responsible for molding a future in the wake of such monumental shifts in our sense of what is normal or usual are taking place. We thank you that we as americans have faced such challenges in the past. Help us to have faith in you and confidence in our constitutional way of proceeding that we have good cause to have hope in what is to come. Bless us all this day and every day and may all that we do be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to section 4a of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last days proceedings is approved. The gentleman from north carolina, mr. Bishop, will lead the house in t