[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 8761]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Thank you, dear God, for the gift of this day and for the opportunity 
to serve both You and country. We are not worthy of the least of Your 
blessings, yet You give us the privilege of working to keep our Nation 
strong.
  As our lawmakers this day seek to be responsible stewards of their 
high calling, make them salt and light to this generation. May, as 
salt, they help make our world safer and more palatable. May, as light, 
they eliminate the dark corridors of disunity and contention, replacing 
them with harmony and civility.
  Our Father, this is the day that You have given us to seek to leave 
our world better than we found it. Use us as instruments of Your glory.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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