[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14117]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray. Eternal God, Who stretches out the heavens and rules 
over land and sea, You keep Your promises to us. You restore power and 
glory to those who return to You. Our enemies stumble at the sound of 
Your footsteps. You give strength to the faint and endurance to the 
weary. Arise, O God, and show Yourself strong in these grand and awful 
times.
  Reveal Yourself to our Senators that they may find hope in Your 
might. Remind them that the battles belong to You and not to them. 
Teach each of us that humanity simply cooperates with divinity in 
accomplishing Your purposes.
  Be exalted, O Lord, among the nations until Your kingdom shall reign 
wherever the sun in its successive journey returns. May Your kingdom 
never end.
  Amen.

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