[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 19643]
[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, our father and our king, we thank You for the gift of 
this day. We need Your grace, for we cannot offer anything to merit 
Your favor or gain Your love. Cover our mistakes and failures with Your 
merciful love and give us Your peace.
  In the beginning of time You created the Heavens and laid the Earth's 
foundation. Now create in our lawmakers a passion to accomplish Your 
purposes. May they seek Your wisdom and acknowledge Your precepts. Help 
them to use Your time-honored principles as the litmus test for good 
decisions. Give them the desire to so honor You that future generations 
will praise Your righteous Name. Amen.

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