[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 20]
[Senate]
[Page 26979]
[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 God, our Father, we come to You not because we are strong but 
because we are weak; not because we have merits of our own but because 
we need mercy and help. We come relying on Your strength to do in and 
through us what we cannot do in our own power.
  Give us the grace to accept Your guidance, to obey Your word, and 
never to leave Your path. Keep our faith true to the end.
  Strengthen our Senators for the challenges of today. Keep them from 
looking so longingly at doors closed that they cannot see other doors 
opening before them.
  Help each of us to be so pure in heart that we may see You. We pray 
in Your righteous name. Amen.

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