[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 17065]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, ADM Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Eternal Lord God, who rules the raging of the sea, great and 
marvelous are Your works; just and true are Your ways. Thank You for 
smiling upon America and for blessing this Nation with your generous 
providence. Forgive our tendency to forget Your goodness and our 
failure to express gratitude for Your gifts. Thank You for these 
Senators, who seek to produce fruits that will nourish this land. Give 
them a kindness that remembers those on life's margins and a courage 
that will narrow the gap between the creed and the deed. Remove the 
scales from our eyes, that we might discover celestial solutions to 
Earth's most difficult problems. Today, let our words, thoughts, and 
actions honor and glorify Your Holy Name. Amen.

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