Yesterday's opening prayer from Senate Chaplain Barry Black was quite fitting as a potential government shutdown loomed less than 10 hours away. Now that the shut-down has arrived, Belinda will be sent home from her job at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton later this morning.
“Let us pray. Eternal God, our ever present help in trouble, as our nation stumbles toward a seemingly unavoidable government shutdown, keep our lawmakers from sowing to the wind, thereby risking reaping the whirlwind. May they remember that all ...that is necessary for unintended catastrophic consequences is for good people to do nothing.
Lord, lead them away from the unfortunate dialectic of us vs. them as they strive to unite for the common good of this land we love. Let them not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give them the determination to make the right things happen. Bless them with the courage to stand for something less they fall for anything. We pray in your merciful name. Amen.”
(Charles met Chaplain Black, the former Chief of Chaplain in the Navy, when Charles was stationed in Japan. To hear him pray:
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