[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 26, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Page S249]
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 God, Lord of history, lead our Senators above all 
irrelevancies and trivialities to a unity of passion and purpose. 
Create in them an elevated and refined patriotism that will make them 
eager to know and do Your will. May the words of their mouths and the 
meditations of their hearts be acceptable to You, O God, our strength 
and our Redeemer.
  In the awareness that ``without a vision the people perish,'' give 
our Senators a fresh vision of the United States of America. Also, keep 
ever before them the dream of the better world that is yet to be.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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