[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6239]
[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 of history, strong to save, remind us that You are not an 
indifferent spectator to the progress and pathology in our world. Help 
us, dear God, to view our world as You see it, becoming Your 
ambassadors of reconciliation. Empower us to love our enemies, to bless 
those who curse us, and to pray for those who maliciously use us.
  Today, guide our Senators through all their deliberations, keeping 
ever before them the vision of a better world that is yet to be. May 
they work for justice and peace, advancing Your kingdom on Earth.
  Sustain us all with the knowledge that our prayers are not in vain.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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