[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9304]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Shall we pray.
  O Lord Most High and so near, before whom all the nations rise and 
fall, it is not mere custom that we begin with prayer, but our deep 
sense of need for You. On this April morning we cherish the memory of 
another April morning and the Minutemen of Lexington and Concord who 
answered the midnight cry of Paul Revere, and they took their stand and 
fired the shot heard round the world. We remember them and how bitterly 
our freedom has been won, and pray that same spirit for us today.
  Spirit of the living God, breathe on this assembled body of free men 
and women, servants of the people. As You guided its sons and daughters 
of liberty in the past, so guide these here today for the sake of 
liberty everywhere, for America's sake, for conscience sake, for God's 
sake. Amen.

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