[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 83 (Monday, May 21, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S2781]
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.
  Almighty God, who fills us with hope even in challenging times, use 
us to bring Your Kingdom to Earth.
  Give to our lawmakers the inner strength to seek the truth and live 
by Your precepts. Help them to see eternal things amid the tempests of 
the temporal. Use them to help create a more nonviolent nation and 
world. Free them from towering self-sufficiency as they habitually 
place their hope in You. Lord, make them tall enough in moral and 
spiritual stature to rise above the petty prejudices of our day, 
depending on You to direct their steps.
  We pray in Your Holy Name. Amen.

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