[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 17367]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Help us, O Lord, to run when we can, to walk when we ought, and to 
wait when we must.
  Today, give wisdom to our lawmakers. May they leave undone that for 
which they are not ready as they open their minds to discern Your will. 
Lord, help them to not pray for tasks fitted for their strength but for 
strength which fits them for their tasks. Conform their lives more and 
more to Your likeness. Continue to lift the light of Your countenance 
upon them and fill them with Your peace.
  We pray in Your Holy Name. Amen.

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