[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[Senate]
[Page 28717]
[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 Shepherd who neither slumbers nor sleeps, as we labor this weekend, 
we desire You to be near to guide us with Your wisdom and love. Use our 
lawmakers as instruments of Your providence, leading them beside still 
waters, restoring their energy and bringing them to Your desired 
destination. Give them the stature to see, above the walls of prideful 
opinions, the path to the greatest good. Lord, sustain them with Your 
strength, preserve them with Your grace, instruct them with Your 
wisdom, and protect them with Your power. As an intentional act of 
will, may they commit to You everything they think, say, and do today. 
We pray in Your sovereign Name. Amen.

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