[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9983]
[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 inhabits eternity, help us to honor Your Name. Today, 
inspire our Senators to do Your will. May they remember that life is a 
rehearsal, a pilgrimage, and a time of testing. Remind them, therefore, 
of their accountability to You and that You will bring every work into 
judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil. Lord, enable 
them to be in the world but not of it, as they understand the vanity of 
the temporal and the glory of the eternal. May gratitude to You be the 
motive for their work, as they make a renewed commitment to excellence 
in everything they do and say.
  We pray in Your righteous Name. Amen.

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