[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13105]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Our Heavenly Father, Creator and Sustainer of all things, we 
acknowledge You as the ultimate source of our lives and of all of the 
good that we know. We look to You to speak to the questions for which 
we shall never know the complete answers. We ask You only to reply in 
faith strengthened, hope renewed, and love deepened.
  So bless our Senators today that their lives will be a testimony that 
old things have passed away and the new has come. Season their words 
with kindness and their spirits with humility. Remind them that honesty 
will keep them safe.
  Help each of us to live with such integrity that trouble will flee. 
Give us the wisdom to remember that our future belongs to You. We pray 
in Your powerful Name. Amen.

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