[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15040]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Creator and upholder of our lives, we can't escape from Your presence 
or control, nor do we desire to do so. We stand in awe of Your power, 
mercy, and majesty. Our thoughts of Your goodness banish our fears. 
Today give to the Members of the Senate a high sense of the common 
purpose that unites them. Deliver them from that stubborn pride that 
imputes to itself infallibility and that pits partisanship against 
national interest. Father of all, guide our lawmakers through 
discussion, debate, and confrontation to the solutions so desperately 
needed in our land. We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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