[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 16443]
[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, the giver of gifts, thank You for Your unchanging 
promises that we can claim each day. Lord, You have promised to supply 
our needs and to work everything together for our good.
  Bless our lawmakers. Help them to seek not what they can get from You 
but what Your power can enable them to do for You. Remind them that in 
prayer they do not so much hear a voice as acquire a voice. Show them 
how to use that acquired voice to speak for the voiceless. May they 
even use their pain to put them in touch with the pain of others.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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