[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 76 (Thursday, June 9, 2005)]
[Senate]
[Page S6243]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, to the poor, You have united us to bring uncommon hope; 
to innocent captives, release; to the blind, vision, stretching 
boundaries of imagination.
  The poor in every land stretch out empty bowls, and we do not fill 
them; political captives seek justice, and we respond through the 
captivity of fear; the sick yearn for healing arts, yet the cries of 
children still prevail.
  O gracious God, You gave us a rich heritage of compromise, and we 
cling unyieldingly to personal truths; You gave us a world abundant in 
resources, and we squander our inheritance; You gave us wisdom and 
insight, and our disagreements sound like loud-clanging symbols.
  O God, forgive us. Release the fires of integrity that dwell within 
the hearts of this great Chamber, and make us urgent to mend the torn 
fabric of peace, to stretch courageously beyond political comfort, and 
to bring holy blessings to all God's people everywhere. Amen.

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