[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 385]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Almighty God, who has made and preserved us as a nation, guide our 
lawmakers through this day by Your higher wisdom. Take from them all 
that stains their lives or keeps them from intimacy with You. Lead them 
to a fresh dedication to serve and to choose the harder right. In the 
living of their days, may faith replace fear, truth conquer falsehood, 
justice triumph over greed, love prevail over hate, and peace abide 
with all humanity.
  We pray in the Redeemer's Name. Amen.

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