[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12407]
[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 Spirit, change and decay encompass us, but You alone are 
changeless. Transform us by the renewing of our minds so that we may do 
Your work. Set our affection on eternal things to enable us to keep 
life's vicissitudes in their proper perspective. Give us the grace to 
find the time to reflect on Your wisdom and to discover Your plans.
  Deliver our lawmakers from reflex conformity that aborts Your 
providence. Teach them to decide based on enduring principles that have 
stood the test of time. Renew their strength and give them vigor for 
life's emergencies and patience for the sometimes pedestrian monotony 
of daily labors. Reveal to us life areas that need Your touch. 
Illuminate all of our paths that we may walk in Your truth.
  We pray this in Your holy Name. Amen.

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