[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12556]
[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 Savior, our God and our strength, in the shadow of Your hand, 
we find protection from life's slings and arrows. You keep us from 
toiling in vain, from spending our strength for nothing. Today, use our 
lawmakers to make America a light of the nations. May our Senators work 
with such integrity and dependence on You that freedom may reach to the 
end of the Earth. Lord, help them to seek first and foremost to know 
and do Your will and reward them for their service and sacrifices for 
freedom. Have compassion on us all and guide us to the springs of 
living water.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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