[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 10 (Thursday, January 17, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S287]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Eternal Father, answer our prayers, for Your unfailing love sustains 
us.
  Give our lawmakers a great faith to live for as You deliver them from 
doubt, disillusionment, bitterness, cynicism, and frustration. Lord, 
teach them so to live and toil that they may face with clear 
consciences the gaze of their peers and the judgment of posterity.
  Be near to the unpaid Federal workers and their families who are 
feeling the economic strains of this partial government shutdown. Lord, 
don't permit these trials to overwhelm them.
  And, Lord, touch with Your mercy the loved ones of the U.S. citizens 
killed in Northern Syria.
  We pray in Your compassionate Name. Amen.

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