[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22300]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Almighty God, ruler of all nature, enlist our strength today to make 
a good and just world. Give us moral courage that will produce clear 
thinking and clean living. Stimulate our minds so that our affections 
will reside in heavenly places. Lord, lead us so surely that one day we 
may stand before You unashamed. Give Your Senators today fresh vigor to 
meet the challenges of our time. Give them Your wisdom to choose the 
hard right. May we never think of You as absent from our world. We pray 
in Your holy name. Amen.

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