[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12602]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  O Lord who taught us all to love our neighbors as ourselves, we pause 
now, before this Senate session starts, to recall that on this day--in 
1881--and in this city--Washington, DC--Clara Barton and a group of 
friends founded the American Red Cross.
  To love our neighbor as ourselves . . . and then, to not sit idly by 
that neighbor's blood--the suffering that he or she endures--without 
doing what we can to ease the burden and the pain, has been the call to 
which so many Red Cross workers have responded since that day, 
throughout our land; and reaching out to those who serve in our Armed 
Forces overseas--throughout the world, as well.
  Almighty God, we give our thanks for those who give their all, who do 
their best to comfort those in pain. But we pray as well to be inspired 
by their work, to understand we all can make a difference in our 
neighbors' lives, a difference in our Nation's strength, a difference 
in our world. Help us help one another do our part to build the world 
of peace, the time of joy, for which we pray. And may we say, Amen.

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