[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 2936]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Lord of life and love and laughter, You are the alpha and the omega, 
the beginning and the end. Thank You for the miracle of a new day. We 
pause to acknowledge Your sovereignty and to admit that because of You 
we live and move and breathe and have our being.
  Show us how to use this day's fleeting minutes for Your glory. Make 
us Your instruments to bring deliverance to captives and sight to the 
blind. Open our ears to cries of despair all around us and forgive us 
for our premature declarations of peace. Sanctify our thoughts, words, 
and deeds throughout this week and in all the days of our lives. We 
pray this in Your Holy Name. Amen.

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