[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 20632]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  O Lord, our Lord, sustainer of all life. This week, as we remember 
the ratification of our Constitution, remind us that without You we are 
powerless. Sometimes we feel like collapsing beneath the challenges. 
When we try to face temptations alone, we too often are defeated. When 
we seek to meet sorrow without Your presence, our wounds remain 
unhealed. We are too often fascinated by evil and bored by goodness.
  Without You, Lord, we not only cannot know what is right but have no 
power to do it. Empower the Members of this body today with the 
blessings of Your presence. Be with each of them to help, to guide, to 
comfort, and to sustain; grant that whatever light may shine or shadow 
fall, they may walk in Your wisdom. Keep us all in Your will until we 
reach our journey's end.
  We pray in the Name of our Lord. Amen.

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