[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16859]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Eternal God, before You nations rise and fall; they grow strong or 
wither by Your design. Help our Nation to embrace righteousness and to 
strive for unity and renewal.
  Lord, hasten the coming of Your kingdom, where pain, tears, and death 
will be no more. May America's example of right living prompt the 
world's nations to gather in the light of Your presence. Teach all 
nations the way of peace so we may plow up battlefields and pound 
weapons into liberation tools. Teach us to talk across boundaries as 
brothers and sisters, united by Your love. Today, help our Senators and 
all who labor with them to work with a renewed sense of their 
accountability to You.
  We pray in Your sovereign Name. Amen.

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