[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13975]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  God of our hopes and dreams, from whom all blessings flow, thank You 
for Your presence and sustaining power. Strengthen our lawmakers during 
the rigorous demands of their day. Lord, manifest Your presence and 
inspire them with Your unchanging love. Help them to remember that 
greater than the leverage of force is the power of love. Remind them 
that love can mold wills, penetrate lives, and overcome obstacles. 
Lord, make our Senators instruments of Your peace and love in a hurting 
nation and world. Enable them to say with the Psalmist: ``Test me, O 
Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind, for Your love is ever 
before me, and I walk continually in Your truth.''
  We pray in Your loving Name. Amen.

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