[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[Senate]
[Page 25384]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Lord, as we look at our history, we marvel at Your mercies. You have 
blessed our Nation with Your presence, repeatedly opening doors for new 
opportunities. You have delivered us from perils, setbacks, and 
dangers. Great is Your faithfulness.
  Guide our lawmakers according to Your will. Give them humble hearts, 
emptied of presumptuous pride and motivated by a desire to please You. 
Make their spirits quarries out of which stones for new citadels of 
freedom and excellence may be fashioned. Reveal to them the means You 
would have them use to establish justice and peace. Lord, make this 
Nation the hope of all who suffer and the dread of all who would 
enslave the human spirit.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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