[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 4191]
[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 Father, who changes not, thank You for Your mercies ever 
changing, ever new. Teach us to be thankful for the changing faces of 
nature and the blessings every season brings. As we are grateful for 
the warmth of spring, so may we be joyful when winter comes and the 
harvest is past. Through days of warmth or chill, through hours of 
happiness or adversity, may we walk with You as with a friend known of 
old. Today, use the Members of this body for Your glory. Purge them of 
all that makes for discord, that in unity they may be prepared for Your 
service.
  We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.

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