[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 10 (Thursday, January 17, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H681]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Dr. Barry C. Black, Chaplain, United States Senate, Washington, D.C., 
offered the following prayer:
  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 continues, help our lawmakers to 
open their hearts to Your love and to surrender their desires to Your 
purposes.
  Lord, 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 the deliberations of this Chamber 
with Your wisdom to fit these challenging times.
  We pray in Your mighty Name.
  Amen.

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