[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 92 (Thursday, June 26, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S6393]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Dr. Charles E. Poole, pastor of First Baptist 
Church, Washington, DC, offered the following prayer:
  Eternal and Almighty God, we give thanks for these, Your children, 
who gather in this place, day after day, to invest their best energies 
in shaping the life of the Nation.
  We pray, O God, that You will bless the men and women who serve in 
this Senate. Give them wisdom and insight from beyond themselves. Give 
them the abiding patience that lasts longer than mere tolerance, the 
embracing perspective that sees larger than simple partisanship, and 
the enduring peace that goes deeper than outward circumstance. Hold 
each of them, and their families, in Your strong hands. Bless them, O 
God, with quiet spaces and restful moments in the midst of their very 
public lives in this very noisy world.
  We pray in the quiet assurance that You are with us, and in the 
abiding hope that we will be with You. Amen.

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