[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10361]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Words are more powerful than medicine, and more painful than daggers.
  Words can give courage to soldiers or destroy careers, even lives.
  There is a Jewish teaching, that a person is granted so many words in 
this world, and when he has used them up, so is his time on this good 
earth.
  There is the right word.
  Then there is the right word at the right time.
  Then there is the right word and the courage to say it to the right 
people.
  May the Almighty, Ruler of this world, fill our hearts and minds with 
the wisdom, truth, and courage to be able to choose the right words, at 
the right time, with the right person. Amen.

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