[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10313]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we thank You for blessing us as a nation. We pray that 
we would always be a generous people, eager to share the gifts of 
freedom, respect for human dignity, and commitment to service, with all 
the peoples of the world.
  We pray for all who suffer and are afflicted in body or mind, 
especially those who face the devastation of HIV/AIDS and the unfolding 
terror of SARS. Grant them healing and comfort, and stir up in us the 
will and patience to minister to their needs.
  We commend to Your gracious care all the men and women of our Armed 
Forces. Defend them day-by-day with Your heavenly grace, and give them 
a sense of Your abiding presence wherever they may be.
  We thank You for the men and women of this Senate, and for all who 
serve in this place. Grant them the spirit of wisdom, charity and 
justice; that with steadfast purpose they may faithfully carry out the 
work set before them.
  All this we pray because of the love first shown us in the call of 
Abraham and Sarah and now revealed to us in the life and witness of 
Jesus the Christ.
  Amen.

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