[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 44 (Wednesday, April 20, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  Rabbi Dena A. Feingold of Beth Hillel Temple, Kenosha, WI, offered 
the following prayer.
  Let us pray:
  Source of Wisdom, Well of Justice, Fountain of Goodness and of Peace, 
we praise You for pouring Your spirit upon humanity as we struggle 
feebly to fashion our society into the kind of world You have 
envisioned. We cherish Your guidance as we strive to bring peace, 
harmony, and equity to this world in which we are Your partners.
  As these elected officials begin another day of deliberation in the 
U.S. Senate, we pray that Your presence may dwell among them. Enable 
them to discern and to acquire but a minute portion of Your wisdom and 
compassion, Your knowledge of what is just and right, as they carry out 
the awesome task of governing our great Nation. Grant them insight and 
endurance as they consider the weighty issues facing our country. Endow 
them with deep concern for one another, for their constituents, for the 
people of this Nation and indeed of the entire world. Give them courage 
to take difficult stands and to ask the hard questions which must be 
asked in order to bring wholeness to our broken world.
  With grateful hearts do we stand before You, Framer and Fashioner of 
all that is right and just, for the privilege of living in this land of 
freedom where the Spirit of Goodness is felt keenly by so many. Eternal 
Power of the Universe, Author of Freedom, to You we offer thanks and 
praise. And let us say: Amen.

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