[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 13 (Friday, January 29, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S353]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Eternal Spirit, whose inward fellowship means peace and power, 
dissolve the barriers that keep our souls from You. Deliver us from the 
self-sufficiency that will not recognize our need of You. Save us from 
spiritual blindness that sees the visible but is unaware of the 
invisible and eternal.
  Lord, teach our lawmakers how to be victors over life and not victims 
of it and that to live worthily, they must put their faith in You. 
Whether on the mountaintop or in the valley, may they ever be aware 
that You are walking beside them. Give them, therefore, the wisdom to 
comprehend Your perspective, plan, and purpose.
  We pray in Your loving Name. Amen.

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