[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 122 (Thursday, July 19, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5079]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Today's prayer will be offered by the Reverend 
Dr. Richard Gibbons of First Presbyterian Church, from Greenville, SC.
  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Let us join our hearts and minds together as we pray.
  Let us pray.
  Gracious God and loving Heavenly Father, as we prayerfully seek Your 
presence, enable us amidst complex challenges to be refreshed and 
renewed by the transforming nature of Your extravagant love. Impart to 
us a profound sense of gratitude, thankful that in Your sovereign 
purposes, we are a people shaped by adversity, dedicated to equality, 
while fully dependent on You, for ``In God we trust.''
  Father, grant to us a renewed sense of Your calling, sustained by the 
enduring values we hold to be self-evident. Equip us, by Your Spirit, 
to be defined by consensus through compassion, expertise enlightened by 
experience, leadership resistant to polarization and expediency, yet 
intentional in unity, honesty, transparency, and integrity, as together 
we seek to be ``one nation under God.''
  We bring our prayers to You in and through the Name of Christ our 
Lord. Amen.

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