[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16566]
[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 God, holy, powerful, loving, and good, we thank You for 
Yourself, whom we have come to know and love. Let Your presence be felt 
today on Capitol Hill. Where there is discord, let there be peace. 
Where there is hatred, let there be love. Where there is sadness, let 
there be joy. Where there is sickness, let there be health. Where there 
is poverty, let there be true wealth.
  Use our lawmakers for Your purposes. Give them peaceful satisfaction 
in doing Your will. Teach them the wisdom of confession without 
coercion and conciliation without compromise.
  We pray in Your powerful Name. Amen.

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