[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 378]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Infinite spirit, today's blanket of snow reminds us of Your constancy 
in the orderly movements of the seasons. Your thoughts are too high for 
us to comprehend and Your ways are past finding out.
  Great is Your name, O God. You transform our discordant notes into 
harmony. We thank You that Your goodness and mercy follow us all the 
days of our lives. Lord, thank You for this land of freedom which we 
sometimes take for granted.
  As Senators deliberate on complex issues, give them the insight to 
discern truth from untruth, the high from the low, and the enduring 
from the transient. Give them a perspective that will enable them to 
find the right path.
  Lord, bless our storm-tossed world with its distresses and 
catastrophes. Use each of us as instruments of Your peace. We ask this 
in the power of Your Name. Amen.

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