[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 21381]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Almighty Father, the giver of gifts, help us to live in purity. Make 
all our thoughts so pure that they will bear Your scrutiny. Make all 
our desires so pure that they will be rooted in Your purposes. Make all 
our words so pure that You will find pleasure in hearing them. Make all 
our actions so pure that people will know that we are Your children.
  Guide our lawmakers through the challenges of this day. Keep them 
from words that harm and do not help, from deeds that obstruct and do 
not build, from habits that shackle and do not liberate, and from 
ambitions that take and do not give.
  Give to us all the blessings of asking and receiving, of seeking and 
finding, and of knocking and opening.
  We pray in Your sovereign name.
  Amen.

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