[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12075]
[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 Lord, our God, ever living and ever giving, strengthen us to enter 
into Your purpose and to bring blessings to our world. Kindle such 
flames of sacred love within the hearts of our Senators that they will 
be motivated by their passion to please You. Amid all that is transient 
and temporal, keep them loyal to the transcendent and determined. May 
they test their actions by their conscience and by their wisdom of Your 
word and spirit. Lord, strengthen them in every endeavor, empowering 
them in all that pertains to that righteousness which exalts a nation. 
Bind them together in the oneness of a shared commitment to You.
  We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.

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