[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 142 (Thursday, September 22, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Page S5849]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Today's opening prayer will be offered by the 
Reverend Dr. Silvester S. Beaman, senior pastor of the Bethel African 
Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, DE.
  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  God of grace and God of glory, as this great Hall prepares to open 
for another session of deliberations, we humbly submit our minds, 
energies, gifts, and graces to You, that we may be men and women 
sensitive to the concerns of a nation in great expectation.
  Use the collective resolve of our Senate as Your instrument, building 
wholeness and peace in an age where injury, indifference, 
uncertainties, and deficiency swirl as an immobilizing specter.
  Show us a glimpse of Your radiance, remove all doubts and fears; 
liberating and inspiring, until hope and possibility become a living 
reality.
  We are forever Yours and we will be forever faithful. Amen.

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