[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2013]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Eternal God, creator and sustainer of life, no good thing have You 
withheld from the children of humanity.
  Lead our Senators today along productive paths. Teach them to give up 
the things that really don't matter: an opinion of their personal 
infallibility; a devotion to the trivial; a penchant for the petty; a 
tendency to equate their own well-being with the ongoing of the 
universe. Remind them that if they merely do what they please, they 
shall not be pleased with what they do. Give them grace to take up the 
cross of sacrificial service with the goal of pleasing You.
  We pray in the Redeemer's Name. Amen.

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