[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18622]
[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, today give our Senators the second wind of Your passion, 
power, and perseverance. Fill them with the assurance of Your presence. 
May they seek to live with the knowledge that You have chosen them to 
serve You and country. Protect their thoughts and actions from 
temptation as You control all they say and do by the power of Your 
spirit. May their lives bring glory to Your Name. Lord, remind them 
that they pass through this life but once, so that they must not take 
this day for granted but live to honor You.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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