[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 21697]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Holy God, sustainer of humanity, if it were not for Your love, our 
burdens would be too heavy and the journey would seem too difficult. 
But because of Your mercies, we can mount up on wings like eagles, run 
and not become weary, and walk and not faint.
  Draw near to our Senators today. Keep them from confusion and 
perplexity and the fatigue of fruitless quests. Breathe upon their 
thinking with Your truth and illuminate their understanding with Your 
light. May the pressures of the world not mold them, but may they 
receive Your strength so that they can shape our Nation and world 
according to Your purposes. Lord, maintain in them the fidelity of 
those to whom much has been given and from whom much will be required. 
May this be for them a productive day because they have placed their 
trust in Your strong and guiding hand.
  We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.

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