[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11319]
[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, who keeps us in Your love, forgive us when we give our 
best to the wrong things. Keep us from becoming annoyed and angry about 
things which in our calmer moments we know do not matter. Give our 
lawmakers this day the wisdom to know what is important and what is 
unimportant so they will never forget the things that truly matter. 
Help them, Lord, to never let the things that do not matter to matter 
too much. Give them in all their duties Your help, in all their 
perplexities Your guidance, and in all their dangers Your protection.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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