[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 6 (Friday, January 11, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S149]
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.
  O God, our way, our truth, and our life, we worship You. Quicken our 
consciences by Your holiness, that we will find nourishment in Your 
truth.
  As this partial government shutdown grinds on, help our lawmakers to 
open their hearts to Your love and to surrender their desires to Your 
purposes.
  In this tangled world, we are conscious of our woeful inadequacies to 
sit in the seats of judgment, to balance the scales of justice, and to 
respond with equity to the myriad calls of human needs. We need You, 
Eternal God, to crown our deliberations with Your wisdom and with 
spacious thinking to fit these challenging days.
  We pray in Your strong Name. Amen.

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