[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9571]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Gracious and sovereign God who has carried us from the day of our 
birth, thank You for Your willingness to use us for Your unfolding 
plan. You are the blessed controller of all things. Thank You also for 
Your gracious intentions to bless us, to give us a future and a hope. 
Help us to remember that in everything You are working for the good of 
those who love You and are called according to Your purposes.
  Guide our Senators today in each decision that they may be faithful 
to their calling to be guardians of freedom. Make even their 
disadvantages become but a backdrop for the movement of Your loving 
designs. Give each of us faith to look beyond the trials of the present 
and to know that neither life nor death can separate us from Your love. 
We pray this in Your awesome Name. Amen.

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