[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 1152]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  O God of light, in whom there is no darkness, thank You for Your 
light. You are a guide who gently leads us. You are a mystery but not a 
puzzle; profound but not incomprehensible. You are loving, patient, and 
long-suffering. O God, You are all things that we are not but need to 
be. You don't make promises to forget them. You, O God, with steadiness 
and perseverance move in the lives of people and in the life of our 
Nation and world.
  Awaken our lawmakers to Your inescapable presence. Keep them from 
thinking that You are absent from our world or disinterested in it. 
Enable them to feel You in their midst as they grapple with the 
problems of our time.
  We pray in the Name of Him who promised never to forsake us. Amen.

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