[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 19913]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  O God, who speaks to hearts, attuned to hear, forgive us for closing 
our insights with the attitude that we have already arrived at the 
truth. Open our minds that we may weigh the evidence and trust Your 
wisdom to guide us. Use us as Your instruments in the struggle of good 
against evil, of truth against falsehood. Help us to avoid the proud 
spirit that causes us to feel self-made. Draw back the curtain behind 
where we, in a false security, congratulate ourselves. Instead, may we 
seek to know if we are doing Your will. Lord, help us to walk the road 
of wisdom, until the dayspring breaks and the shadows flee away.
  Lord, we close this prayer by thanking You for the life and legacy of 
Bob Hope. Amen.

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