[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 26365]
[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, hear the cries of the needy. Listen to the voices of 
the lonely, sick, homeless, incarcerated, poor, and institutionalized. 
Incline Your ears to the pleading of those who need our love, 
especially the spiritually destitute. In response to these needs, stir 
us and the Members of this body to see Your face in the depressed, 
hungry, and deprived people of our world. Open our eyes to see poverty 
beneath diamonds of glitter or wealth of spirit beneath raiment of 
rags. May the work done in the Senate bring deliverance to the least, 
the lost, and lonely.
  Lord, solve the problems of poverty of soul and purse by giving our 
leaders the wisdom to pursue Your purposes. Help them to remember that 
You answer the prayers prayed by millions, using legislative hearts and 
hands. In their efforts to help the hurting, inspire our lawmakers to 
attempt something they couldn't do without Your power.
  We pray in Your strong Name. Amen.

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