[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14908]
[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 God, who remains our shelter in the time of storms, we are helpless 
without Your power. Unless You empower our lawmakers, they can see the 
ideal but not reach it. They can know the right but not do it. They can 
comprehend their duty but not perform it. They can seek the truth but 
not fully find it.
  Dear God, help our lawmakers. Enlighten their minds, purify their 
hearts, and strengthen their wills, enabling them to pass beyond 
guessing to knowing, beyond doubting to certainty, beyond resolving to 
doing, and beyond intention to action.
  We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.

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