[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4718]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Holy God, who sustains us with Your love, keep our Nation with Your 
powerful protection and incline the hearts of its citizens to do Your 
will.
  Use our lawmakers as instruments of Your providence. Heighten their 
gratitude for the blessings You have bestowed upon them, as You deepen 
their humility. Broaden their sense of justice to include the deprived 
and forgotten of our world. Lengthen the outreach of their compassion 
to include all who suffer, the homeless and the hungry, the persecuted, 
and the oppressed. Make them advocates of the voiceless, the weak, the 
poor, the elderly, and the neglected. Lord, sensitize them to the hurt 
of all people at home and abroad. We pray in Your matchless Name. Amen.

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