[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12091]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Our Father in heaven, we thank You for the beautiful differences in 
the human family, for its varied shapes and sizes, its features and 
colors, its abilities and talents. Deliver us from the forces that 
would destroy our unity by eliminating our diversity.
  Bless the Members of this body. Help them in their debates to 
distinguish between substance and semantics, between rhetoric and 
reality. Free them from personal and partisan preoccupations that would 
defeat their aspirations and deprive Americans of just and equitable 
solutions. May our lawmakers avoid the works of darkness and put on 
Your armor of light.
  We pray in Your holy Name. Amen.

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