[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 183 (Monday, November 6, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5347]
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.
  Here we are again, Lord, a people in need of Your presence and power 
in order to meet life with courage, faith, and perseverance. Today, 
strengthen the Members of this body with a faith that will ever choose 
the harder right over the easy expedient.
  Lord, give our Senators wisdom to follow Your example of sacrificial 
service, infusing them with the courage to do right as You give them 
the light to see it. Lift from our world the burdens of loss and sorrow 
when forces beyond our control invade our lives and seek to rob us of 
Your peace.
  Lord, bless the people of our world with the assurance that they are 
never alone, for You have promised never to forsake them.
  We pray in Your loving Name. Amen.

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