[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 70 (Wednesday, June 8, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest chaplain, the Reverend Charles F. Schultz, Jr., D.D., 
offered the following prayer:
  Let us be together in prayer:
  Eternal God, God of all the ages and God of this time and place. God 
of all people and our God, we pause to praise Your name and to thank 
You for Your mighty deeds of love and grace, mercy, and redemption.
  O God, we thank You for Your presence in the life of nations and in 
our lives. We thank You for Your promise that whenever women and men 
seek to be faithful in the midst of unfaithfulness, their own and 
others, You are with them in joy and sorrow, victory and defeat, life 
and death.
  Everlasting God, we thank You for Your love, which seeks always to 
empower and not overpower, which is revealed in a rich and amazing 
variety of ways: Jesus of Nazareth, prophets and apostles, martyrs and 
saints and also through people, exactly like ourselves, who, inspired 
by Your spirit, have done extraordinary things for others and to Your 
great glory.
  Holy God, may Your will be done and Your name be honored in church, 
synagogue, and mosque, in high centers of government, in our homes and 
places of work. Gracious God, continue to be with Your people in the 
struggle for justice and peace and to build communities of 
inclusiveness where all are affirmed.
  O God, on this anniversary of D-day, bless America, that America 
might continue to be a blessing to the world.
  Gracious God, to this end may each of us grow into closer touch with 
what President Lincoln called, ``the angels of our better selves.'' For 
You have shown us, O God, what is good, and what do You require of us 
but that we seek mercy and kindness, love justice, and walk humbly with 
You and our sisters and brothers. To You be all honor, glory, and power 
forever, worlds without end. Amen.

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