[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 37]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Out of the depths we lift our hearts to You, O God, waiting for Your 
providence to prevail more than they who watch for sunrise. Guide our 
Senators to find hope in Your presence as they trust the unstoppable 
cycle of seed time and harvest. Lord, give our lawmakers such reverence 
for You that they will stand for right although the heavens fall. May 
they delight in any work they do for You and tire of any rest that is 
apart from You. Create in them clean hearts, which no unworthy purpose 
may tempt aside. May they wait for the power of Your Spirit, working 
through their faith, to do more than they can ask or imagine.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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