[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3557]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  O God of love, give our lawmakers wisdom to know what they ought to 
do. Create in them a passion to seek the truth, the humility to accept 
advice, and the courage to act with integrity. Deliver them from the 
lack of resistance which too easily yields to temptation and from the 
procrastination which puts things off until it is too late. May Your 
wisdom motivate them to faithfully follow Your commands. Empower each 
of them with the grace to seek and to find, to know and to love, to 
obey and to live the truth.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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