[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5316]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Immortal God, You are the meaning and mystery of all that is, was, 
and is to be. Thank You for Your sustaining love and for the 
opportunities to learn from each other. Thank You for the challenges 
and difficulties You use to test and refine us.
  Lord, give our lawmakers the wisdom to trust the unfolding of Your 
providence. May they embrace a humility that seeks first to understand, 
instead of striving first to be understood. Deliver them from a false 
patriotism that would render unto Caesar what belongs to You. Guide 
them with Your powerful hand until the potentates of this world 
acknowledge Your sovereignty and might.
  We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.

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