[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2432]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Creator God, Source of all that is, that has been, and that is yet to 
be.
  We begin this new day with gratitude and thanksgiving for in You we 
live and move and have our being. Thus acknowledging our dependence on 
You, we can do no other than to thank You for our very lives and for 
the multiple blessings that come to us both as a nation and as 
individuals.
  Knowing that You count us as Your precious children, we are bold to 
ask Your grace and further blessing on this new day, which is like no 
other day, for this day has not yet been lived. Enable each of us then, 
and in particular the women and men of the United States Senate, to 
live this day with the sure knowledge that Your presence is alive 
within us and Your Spirit is actively engaged in guiding us.
  Touch our hearts that we may act in love. Touch our minds that we may 
act in wisdom. Touch our souls that we may act with tolerance. Touch 
our eyes that they may see Your will with clarity. Touch our ears that 
they may listen with understanding. Touch our tongues that they may 
speak with integrity.
  And so, O God, on this new day, in these troubled times, let each one 
of us and especially these, our Nation's leaders, assume our 
responsibilities with courage, good hope and an abiding faith in You, 
our protector and preserver. Amen.

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