[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[Senate]
[Page 28285]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Here we are again, Lord, a people in need of Your presence and power 
in order to meet life with courage and faith.
  Today, strengthen the Members of this body with a faith that will 
ever choose the harder right over the easy expedient. Give them wisdom 
to follow Your example of sacrificial service, infusing them with the 
courage to do right as You give them the light to see it. Lord, lift 
from them the burden of loss and sorrow when forces beyond their 
control invade their lives and seek to rob them of Your peace. Bless 
them with the assurance that they are never alone, for You have 
promised never to forsake them. Fill their disappointments with Your 
strengthening presence, transforming their darkness into the glory of 
Your new dawn of hope and life.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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