[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 19928]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Eternal Father, You are always the same. Help our legislative leaders 
to be honest and fair. May our lawmakers labor for justice and peace. 
As You use them for Your purposes, deliver them from moral paralysis 
and spiritual inertia.
  Make them voices for those who are captives of injustice and 
oppression. Use them to rescue the hopeless, to help the hurting, and 
to have pity on the weak. Because of their faithfulness, let this 
Nation prosper like flowers in a well-kept garden.
  As we praise You, Our Father, show Your glory throughout our world.
  We pray in Your glorious Name. Amen.

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