[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 16725]
[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, every good and perfect gift comes from You alone, for 
with You there is no variation or shadow of turning. May we place our 
hope in You and never forget how You have sustained us in the past. 
Lord, give our Senators the wisdom to trust You in the small things, 
realizing that faithfulness with the least prepares them for fidelity 
with the much. May they trust You to do what is best for America in 
good times and in bad. Inspire each of us to stand for right even 
though the heavens fall.
  We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.

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