[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6145]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The guest chaplain, Dr. Raphael Warnock, 
senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta, GA, will lead the 
Senate in prayer.
  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  God of love and justice, for this new day with its new possibilities, 
we are grateful. For the holy covenant we have with You and for the 
sacred covenant we have with one another as an American people, we are 
grateful. For the precious ideals of freedom, self-government, radical 
inclusion, and equal protection under the law, we are grateful. These 
are Your gifts. Grant that when we, the American people, especially 
those who serve in this the people's house, are weighed by the moral 
balance of history, we will be found worthy.
  God, make us mindful that we might be found worthy; mindful that the 
moral test of government is how it treats those at the dawn of life, 
the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; those 
who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, the handicapped. O 
God, make us mindful of our inextricable connections to one another and 
of our sacred obligation as careful stewards of this global 
neighborhood we are blessed to share.
  To the God who loves us into freedom, and frees us into loving, we 
offer this prayer. Amen.

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