[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15659]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Eternal God, our hope, You fight our battles for us, for You continue 
to work for the good of those who love You. Be a shield for our 
lawmakers, delivering them from cynicism, pessimism, and despair. Give 
them such respect for themselves that they will never do anything of 
which they would be ashamed. Remind them to never do in the present 
that which in the future they would have cause to regret. Lord, give 
them such respect for others that they will find joy in serving and not 
in selfishness, in giving and not in getting, in sharing and not in 
hoarding.
  And, Lord, we pray for the many Americans who are dealing with the 
ravages of flooding.
  We pray in Your strong Name. Amen.

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