[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1953]
[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, You are great and highly to be praised. Make Yourself known in 
the hearts and minds of our lawmakers. May Your presence create in them 
a hunger and thirst for righteousness. Help them to see the 
opportunities that reside in their challenges, as thoughts of Your 
steadfast love sustain them throughout life's seasons.
  May their lips speak of Your wisdom and the meditations of their 
hearts earn Your sacred approval. Lord, give them the wisdom to 
remember how fragile life is and that when we die we leave our 
possessions to others. When our Senators call on You in the day of 
trouble, deliver them with Your mighty hands.
  And, Lord, touch Senator Claire McCaskill with Your healing hands.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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