[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1894]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  God of the universe, Creator of the human family, enlarge our minds 
and open the doors to our hearts that we may think Your thoughts and 
pattern our affections after Yours.
  Guide the Members of this legislative body. Make them good managers 
of the different talents you have given them. May they use these gifts 
for the good of others. Lord, increase their respect for one another 
that they will seek first to understand rather than to be understood. 
Open their eyes to new horizons of truth that they have not known 
before. When they have to stand alone, when loyalty makes them 
unpopular, give them the courage to faithfully do Your will.
  We pray in the Name of Him who is the truth. Amen.

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