[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 23449]
[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 Lord God, who alone spreads out the heavens and rules the 
raging of the sea, as we approach the end of the 109th Congress, our 
hearts sing in gratitude for Your providential care. While facing 
mountains and valleys, victories and defeats, we have been sustained by 
Your power and love. Through experiences of profit and loss, of success 
and failure, of health and sickness, of triumph and tragedy, You have 
worked for our good. Because of Your mercies, the weapons formed 
against us have not prospered.
  Thank You for Your favor that rests upon our land, for freedoms that 
cause our hearts to soar. Thank You for guiding our Senators in their 
efforts to do Your will. In the days to come, we commit ourselves anew 
to seek Your guidance and follow Your plan.
  We pray in Your all-powerful Name. Amen.

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