[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12327]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Gracious God, we thank You for Your love offered and received, for 
Your calling issued and obeyed, and for Your support provided and 
trusted.
  Help those of us so blessed to enter more fully into what You are 
doing in our world and to put our resources under the direction of Your 
spirit.
  Bless our lawmakers in their work. May the goals they set and the 
efforts they expend bring honor to Your name. Give them the wisdom to 
back their rhetoric with ethical behavior. Remind them that doing right 
brings Your favor, but sin brings disgrace. Teach each of us that we 
harvest what we plant, whether good or bad.
  We pray in Your righteous Name. Amen.

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