[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 51 (Tuesday, May 3, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Reverend Richard C. Halverson, Jr., of Falls Church, VA, offered 
the following prayer:
  As we go to prayer, I would like to remember my father, the Chaplain 
of the Senate, in prayer, and wish that You would bless him.
  Let us pray:
  Almighty God, as it is written, Thou hast ``made of one blood all 
nations of men * * * to dwell on the face of the earth.'' And Thou hast 
determined that we should seek Thee that we might find Thee.
  Inasmuch as Thy Word declares that Thou ``be not far from every one 
of us'' and that, in Thee, ``we live and move and have our being,'' we 
pray that Thou wouldst reveal Thyself to us, not so much in the 
spectacular realm of heavenly visions, as in the common, ordinary 
circumstances of life.--Acts 17:26-28.
  Let those experiencing a wilderness of unfulfillment, in the midst of 
plenty, find manna in their hunger for more. Cause the pain of broken 
promises and relationships we endure to be changed into the birth pangs 
of new life. And make even the path that some have determined to take 
away from Thee to become a road to Damascus.
  We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ who pointed the way to Thee, 
not by leaping down from the temple's pinnacle to be rescued by angels 
before astonished crowds, but by being lifted up in suffering and death 
on the cross. Amen.

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