[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3824]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Lord God, we put our trust in You, determined to accept the things we 
cannot change and to change the things we can. Give our lawmakers the 
wisdom to trust in Your power to help them navigate through the 
difficulties ahead. Lord, fill their thoughts with Heaven's hopes as 
the light of Your presence envelops them. Help them to see themselves 
as Your servant leaders, filled with Your power, patriotism, and 
purpose. May they tune their hearts to receive Your guidance and Your 
abundant grace, opening themselves fully to Your transforming might.
  We pray in Your powerful Name. Amen.

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