[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 5 (Monday, January 8, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S53]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Rev. Craig Barnes, offered the following prayer:
  Lord God, as the Senators of our land begin their deliberations this 
day, we would be careful to ensure that the first words we speak remind 
us of our complete dependency upon You. We ask that You would bless 
these Senators as Your servants. They have come with their hearts and 
minds filled with great agendas, but even these, our leaders, are never 
more than mortals on a journey from dust to dust. So it is to you that 
we look for sacred visions that are greater than party visions and 
certainly greater than the visions any one of us could carry into this 
Chamber. By Your Holy Spirit, accommodate Your will to our political 
process, that it may be used to lead this Nation to Your own future 
filled with hope. And when the day is done and this Chamber is again 
empty, may all who have come here to serve the Republic know that their 
work has not been in vain. Encourage them in the certain conviction 
that they will one day hear from You: Well, done, good and faithful 
servants. This we ask in the name of the Lord whose way we prepare. 
Amen.

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