[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7614]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Almighty God, from Whom all blessings flow and to Whom all praise 
belongs:
  May Your blessing rest on this Senate and on this Nation, not because 
we deserve Your blessing but because we need it.
  Deliver us, we pray, from the tyranny of the expedient, that we might 
always seek to do what is right, whether or not it is politically 
advantageous in the moment.
  Deliver us from evil, and from the evil acts and intentions of those 
who oppose the values of faith and freedom we cherish in this Nation.
  Grant to the men and women of this Senate wisdom, grace, and courage 
for the living of these days. May Your grace abound to them so that, in 
all things at all times, having all that they need, they may abound in 
every good work, to the glory of Your Holy Name. Amen.

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