[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3977]
[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, the captain of our souls, You know every temptation and 
trial we face. Give our lawmakers today the wisdom to be good stewards 
of the bounties You have given and to trust You to deliver them from 
evil. Make them pure enough to use wisely the wealth we call ours, as 
they remember that to whom much is given, much will be required. Allow 
no hunger for attainment nor thirst of ambition to drive them to align 
themselves with wrong. Lord, strengthen them to serve You this day with 
right choices and unswerving loyalty.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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