[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 25068]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  O God, You are our refuge. When we are exhausted by life's efforts or 
bewildered by life's problems or wounded by life's sorrows, we come to 
You for shelter.
  Strengthen our lawmakers for their challenging work. When their tasks 
are beyond their power and duty calls for more than they have to give, 
renew them with Your might. Help them to believe in Your power and to 
be certain that You are able to do for them above all that they can ask 
or think. Strong Deliverer, be for each of them a strength and shield 
in these momentous times.
  We pray in Your sovereign Name. Amen.

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