[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10701]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest chaplain, Reverend Gloria Chaney-Robinson, Senior Pastor of 
Shiloh Baptist Church in Scranton, PA, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Eternal Lord God, we pause in these revered halls to give thanks and 
to offer petition. We acknowledge in this place You have called 
humankind to exhibit righteousness and justice. You desire harmony, 
accord, peace, and wholeness. Bless now the representatives who gather 
in this place of policy and procedure.
  We ask, O God, that You would impart the gift of now vision and 
future sights. We pray for Your gifts of vision, discernment, 
sensitivity, and perceptiveness. For those assembled present and those 
to come, grant the posture of patience and of cooperation. To those in 
debate, discussion, discourse, and duty, allow calm clarity.
  Allow truth to reign, justice to reside, and mercy to resonate. Keep 
ever before us the broken, the disappointed, those in despair, and the 
destitute. Set ears to hear the cries of the poor, the needs of the 
sick, and the afflicted. Please allow hearts assembled to do that which 
is best for all.
  In advance, for what You will do, we say thank You. We pray in Your 
holy Name. Amen.

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