[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 130 (Friday, September 27, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S6971]
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.
  Holy God, You created us for freedom, so keep us from shackling 
ourselves with the chains of dysfunction. Use our Senators today to 
serve Your purposes for this generation, making them ever mindful of 
their accountability to You. Lord, deliver us from governing by crisis, 
empowering us to be responsible stewards of Your bounty, using 
judicious compromise for the mutual progress of all.
  Provide this land we love with Your gracious protection, and may we 
never cease to be grateful for the numberless blessings we receive each 
day from Your hands.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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