[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14272]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Our fathers' God, to You, the author of liberty, we lift this prayer. 
Long may our land be bright with freedom's holy light. Protect us by 
Your might, great God, our King.
  Lord, it is so easy for us to forget Your gracious providence that 
sustained our Nation's Founders through bitter adversity. How easily we 
forget and assume that our might, wisdom, and ingenuity alone produced 
this land we love. Remind our lawmakers each day that they are helpless 
without You. May they not wait for calamities to fall before they 
acknowledge their dependence upon You. Lord, deliver them from the 
pride which believes that they alone can solve the problems that beset 
our Nation. Quicken their minds to seek Your wisdom, and return them to 
that noble dependence on You that enabled our forebears to persevere 
and win against great odds.
  We pray in Your sovereign Name. Amen.

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