[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9910]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Gracious God, You have been faithful to help us when we have lifted 
our hearts in prayer. Thank You for Your providential care of this 
legislative body. Open the eyes and hearts of our lawmakers so that 
they will know and do Your will. Lord, guide them in the way they 
should go, providing them with wisdom to solve challenging problems by 
depending on Your guidance. Help them to think of each other as fellow 
Americans seeking Your best for our Nation rather than enemy parties 
seeking to defeat each other. Replace distrust in each other with a 
deep commitment to creative compromise.
  We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.

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