[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 50 (Monday, April 12, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S2181]
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.
  Almighty and everlasting God, You have revealed Your glory among the 
nations. Increase in our Senators the gifts of faith, hope, and 
perseverance, enabling them to obtain what You promise. Lord, infuse 
them with a passion to do Your will so that this Nation will fulfill 
Your purposes in our world. Deliver our lawmakers from discouraged 
thoughts, as they remember Your mighty acts in our Nation's history.
  Pour eternity into these brief lives of ours, and open to us the 
gates of a new and deeper fellowship with You. Today, we lift our 
prayers for those who mourn in West Virginia and Poland. We pray in 
Your merciful Name. Amen.

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