[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 165 (Friday, November 6, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S11239]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Today's prayer will be offered by the Reverend 
Dr. Timothy Keller, Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York 
City.
  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Almighty and Everlasting God, Your presence brings joy in every 
condition, and Your grace is the health of every community.
  We ask now that You would be both present and gracious toward these 
lawmakers and leaders as they begin their daily work. Visit them with a 
spirit of understanding, counsel, and courage, so that they may both 
know and do what is right.
  Give them wisdom as well as compassion as they ponder the plight of 
the powerless, so that they may seek justice and peace in our country. 
Give them a spirit of unity, so that, despite honest and deeply felt 
differences of conviction, they may humbly work together for the common 
good.
  And so that we may obtain all that You promise, empower us, as a 
nation, to love all that You do command.
  This we ask in the Name of the one Redeemer, who gives Himself to us, 
that we might give ourselves to Him. Amen.

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