[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 28 (Tuesday, March 15, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  Rabbi Kenneth I. Segel, Temple Beth Israel, Phoenix, AZ, offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  Eternal God, we ask Your blessing upon the United States of America 
and the U.S. Senate. Bless our Senators with vision and idealism, 
courage, and sensitivity. May they help create a nation worthy of our 
admiration--a nation reflecting justice and excellence and compassion.
  May our Senators be challenged to cut through life's 
superficialities, its conventional insincerities. Out of sheer dreams 
may they be pointed to pressing purpose.
  Fill our elected officials with the pride that keeps them from self-
limitation. Purge them from the pride which leads to self-exaltation.
  Spark, O God, their creativity and sense of responsibility. Through 
their integrity and devotion may they banish pettiness, cynicism, and 
divisiveness and create harmony and better understanding.
  Inspire our U.S. Senators to promote a renewal of hope. Hope that 
will lead us to strive for human relations nourished by mutual concern 
and care. Hope that will see fear and suspicion yield to confidence and 
trust. Hope that will witness prejudice yield to tolerance. Hope which 
is necessary for our self-respect and for the fulfillment of our worthy 
common aspirations. Amen.

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