[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2807]
[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, You give Your spirit to all who truly desire Your 
presence. Lord, today, strengthen the Members of this legislative body. 
Lord, strengthen them not only to see Your ideal but to reach it. 
Strengthen them not only to know the right but to do it. Strengthen 
them not only to recognize their duty but to perform it. Strengthen 
them not only to seek Your truth but to find it.
  Empower our lawmakers to go beyond guessing to knowing, beyond 
doubting to certainty, and beyond resolving to doing. Give our Senators 
the deep inner peace of knowing that You have heard and answered this 
prayer for power.
  We pray in Your mighty Name. Amen.

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