[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 199 (Tuesday, December 18, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S7737]
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.
  Eternal God, how brief seems the span of human life when compared to 
the enormity of Your universe. Infuse our lawmakers with reverential 
awe as they remember that Your ways are so much higher than our own. 
Give our Senators the faith to believe that although You inhabit 
eternity and You still give each of them Your undivided attention and 
infinite patience.
  Thank you for the many opportunities You provide us each day to 
celebrate Your greatness. Help us all to rise above petty rivalries, 
irrelevancies, and trivialities to a fresh unity of idealism and 
purpose.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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