[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 11 (Tuesday, February 8, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Richard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  * * * what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the 
flesh * * *.--Romans 8:3.
  Almighty God, eternal in the heavens, help us comprehend the 
limitations of law. The Apostle Paul revered the law to which he 
referred, the Law given to Moses, the Torah, the Creator's design for 
life as it was created to be. Even that perfect Law of God has its 
limitations because of ``the weakness of the flesh.''
  Ruler of the nations, help us see that the deepest crisis in history 
is a spiritual-moral crisis. We trust in the gods of our own 
invention--or in ourselves as gods. We fail to take seriously the God 
who created us, who engraved on the human heart through conscience the 
same Law He engraved on the tablets of stone for Moses--the God who 
endowed us with ``certain unalienable rights.''
  Eternal God, perfect in truth, justice, righteousness, and love, 
teach us to trust You rather than the gods of our invention--the little 
gods of manmade religion, whatever its label. Teach us to trust the 
true God who transcends, by infinity, the transitory gods of human 
imagination. Help us to put our faith in the God who created us, not 
the gods we create.
  In His name who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Amen.

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