[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 21]
[Senate]
[Page 29153]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Give our Senators this day, O God, reverence to realize Your 
presence, humility to know their own needs, trust to ask for Your help, 
and obedience to accept Your plan. Walk with them as they labor. Help 
them to remember that there is no purity without vigilance, no learning 
without study, and no mastery without discipline. Remind them also that 
there is no joy without service, no discipleship without devotion, and 
no crown without a cross.
  Help our lawmakers to be willing, Lord, to pay the price required to 
honor You. May they know that true wisdom is to fear You and true 
understanding is to shun evil. Strengthen their resolve to always 
choose the right and to refuse the wrong.
  We pray in Your holy Name. Amen.

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