[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 21001]
[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, who comes with light and life, we praise and adore You. 
As the Senate anticipates the August break, we pause to thank You for 
sustaining us and request Your continuing mercies in the days to come. 
May the time away from this Chamber be restorative and constructive as 
our lawmakers connect with family, friends, and constituents. Give 
traveling mercies to our Senators and staffers, particularly those who 
will be traveling overseas.
  Lord, we ask Your special blessings upon our 2009 summer page class 
and thank You for their faithful service. As they leave, bless and keep 
them in their coming and going, their labor and leisure, their 
successes and failures, their joys and sorrows.
  Lord, give us such a vision of Your purposes that we will seize every 
opportunity to be agents of Your grace.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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