[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4283]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Dr. John W. Coker, Jr., Pastor, First Presbyterian 
Church, Fayetteville, North Carolina, offered the following prayer:
  O God, in Your sight nations rise and fall and pass through times of 
peril. In Your name, our forebears won liberty for us all and lit the 
torch of freedom for nations then unborn.
  Give constant and wise counsel to this Congress, to the President, 
and to the judiciary of this land. Make these servants equal to our 
trust, reverent in the use of freedom, just in the exercise of power, 
generous in the protection of weakness. Be present with our Armed 
Forces throughout the world and with their families.
  Keep us mindful of how small the Earth is, how interrelated our lives 
have become, and how fragile security and peace can be. Hold us 
together as one people. Guard us from prejudices against neighbors who, 
having come from many lands, now pledge allegiance to one flag.
  Have mercy upon us, O Lord, and grant us Your peace.
  Amen.

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