[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3934]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Sovereign Lord, how great You are. You have created the heavens and 
the Earth. You can't be contained in temples made with hands.
  Make Your presence felt in the Senate today. Expand the horizons of 
our Senators and their staffs until they see things that are not and 
ask, why not. Intensify their consciousness of Your love and speak 
clearly to them of Your will. Lift them beyond the power of sin and 
establish them with righteousness.
  Fill us all with the gratitude that befits Your wondrous deeds, as 
You bring our lives into line with Your purposes. Lord, clear away the 
cobwebs of complacency, empowering us to be Your ambassadors in these 
challenging times.
  We pray in the Name of Him in whom is all power in heaven and on 
Earth. Amen.

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