[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 180 (Wednesday, December 18, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Pages S8919-S8920]
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.
  Our Father, the giver of every good and perfect gift, live within us 
so that we will be established in faith and abounding in thanksgiving. 
Today, help our lawmakers to seek the things that are above, as You 
empower them to embrace kindness, compassion, humility, patience, and 
forbearance. May they give You preeminence in all things, rejoicing 
even in the trials they must endure for Your sake. Lord, inspire them 
to persevere with joy in the calling You have given them to protect 
freedom and to keep America strong. Enable them to bear fruits that 
will bless this Nation and our world.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.NOTICE

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CHARLES E. SCHUMER, Chairman.

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