[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1678]
[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 and our God, who by Your word spoke the world into being, 
we acknowledge how little we often care about this world You love so 
much. We know little of where the world hurts and even less why.
  Lord, use our Senators to ease the hurt in our world. As they 
encounter problems that seem to defy solutions, give them Your wisdom 
so they will not weary of well doing. May they be slow to anger and 
abounding in Your steadfast love.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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