[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 13217]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Our Father, You set before us each day a bountiful table of 
blessings. We accept Your gracious gifts with joy, desiring to use them 
in Your service.
  Empower our Senators to engage in work worthy of their high calling. 
Lord, make them open even to the words of people with whom they expect 
to disagree, as they remember that no one has a monopoly on the truth. 
May they work together to discover Your providential purposes for our 
Nation and our world. Keep them close to You and open to one another so 
that this will be a week of substantive progress.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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