[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 96 (Monday, July 8, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S5513]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Lord God, our refuge and strength, continue to shower Your blessings 
upon humanity. Turn sorrow into gladness, doubt into faith, and despair 
into hope.
  May our Senators use all the circumstances of their lives to produce 
fruits of integrity. Lord, let them use disappointment as material for 
patience, danger as material for courage, praise as material for 
humility, and pain as material for perseverance. Guide their thinking 
as You bind them together in unity, for You, O God, are peace in our 
pressure, guidance in our confusion, and hope in our helplessness.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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