[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3471]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Dr. Winford L. Hindrex, senior pastor of the 
Ardmore Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, NC, offered the following 
prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Awesome Creator, sovereign Lord of our great Nation, You must have 
been excited when You first dreamed of creating--out of nothing--this 
beautiful, complex world with all its natural beauty: birds of the air, 
fish of the sea, animals of the Earth, and humans to care for all of 
this and to love You infinitely.
  Loving, visionary God, infuse in these women and men, known as the 
United States Senate, Your dream of our Nation here and now in the 21st 
century. Give to them not only a vision of how things can be, but also 
give to them the nitty-gritty know-how to make Your dream a reality for 
every person in this great land. And dare we say it, may they and all 
of us make You excited yet again as we partner with You to actualize 
Your dream for this Nation.
  We pray in Your awesome, loving, creative Name. Amen.

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