[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11105]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Sovereign God, fountain of light, Your Senators still face deep 
valleys and challenging mountains. Please don't remove their mountains, 
but give them the strength to climb them. May they discover that the 
power required for life's low and high places will come from You. 
Remind them to greet those two imposters--success and failure--with the 
same equanimity and faith. Help them to see that the race is not to the 
swift and the battle not to the strong, but true victory comes only 
from You. Take from them distracting worries, and give them more trust.
  Lord, empower each of us today to keep our hearts pure, to keep our 
minds clean, to keep our words true, and to keep our deeds kind.
  We pray in Your holy Name. Amen.

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