[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14705]
[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, our ever-present help in trouble, as our Nation stumbles 
toward a seemingly unavoidable government shutdown, keep our lawmakers 
from sowing to the wind, thereby risking reaping the whirlwind. May 
they remember that all that is necessary for unintended catastrophic 
consequences is for good people to do nothing. Lord, lead them away 
from the unfortunate dialectic of us versus them, as they strive to 
unite for the common good of this land we love. Let them not be content 
to wait and see what will happen but give them the determination to 
make the right things happen. Bless them with the courage to stand for 
something, lest they fall for anything.
  We pray in Your merciful name. Amen.

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