[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13307]
[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, our Father, when we are far from You, we are unhappy. Remove 
from our lives anything that would keep us from being close to You.
  Today, may our Senators feel Your presence and abide in Your wisdom. 
Provide them with solutions to problems that have eluded the powers of 
human reason. Lord, make Your purposes clear to them so that they may 
run and not be weary. As they surrender themselves more completely to 
You, let the light of Your peace shine in their hearts. Make their 
thoughts and feelings what they ought to be as they strive to live 
worthy of Your love. Lord, watch over them and their loved ones, both 
now and in the years to come.
  We pray in Your loving Name. Amen.

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