[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4519]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  God of love and grace, our love is pale and fitful compared to Your 
infinite goodness. Inspire our lawmakers with Your guiding power so 
that they will pursue paths of peace and justice for all. Keep before 
them Your vision of bringing deliverance to captives, the recovery of 
sight to the blind, and permitting the oppressed to go free. Use them 
as healers and helpers and heralds of Your good tidings to our Nation 
and world. Assure them of Your love as You give them eyes to see Your 
saving truth.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

                          ____________________