[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13471]
[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 God omnipotent, Your power and love sustain us. Rule the wills 
of our lawmakers by Your might as You use them to do Your work on 
Earth. Lord, give our Senators faith to look beyond today's challenges 
and trials, finding in You the source of their optimism and confidence. 
May their confidence in the unfolding of Your loving providence lighten 
every task, providing them with reasons to rejoice. Give them the gift 
of perseverance, enabling them to refuse to become weary in doing Your 
will. When they fall, help them always to rise again.
  Lord, thank You for providing us with faith to look beyond today's 
vicissitudes, always knowing that nothing can separate us from Your 
love.
  We pray in Your sovereign Name. Amen.

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