[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14678]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Dear God, we thank You for the remnants of love that remain within 
beloved America.
  We confess that far too often, we have embraced the anti-love, in 
thought, word, and deed; please forgive us and mend our every flaw.
  In the conflicts of life itself may we find the courage to meditate, 
to ponder, and to wrestle with the principalities and the powers.
  When the conscious light of Your love breaks through our common 
journey, may we take off our shoes and worship, for that indeed will 
have become holy ground.
  Grant us grace, dear God, to go forward and match deeds of love to 
our sacred words, that the love which is in the community of all 
humanity may perfect itself in us.
  Having come now to understand how we of all faiths, races, and 
nationalities, as one people under God, could go forward, may we 
forever trust and abide in love.
  And in the name of the one God of love, we offer this prayer. Amen.

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