[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[Senate]
[Page 28835]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Our Father God, author of liberty, as our governmental leaders face 
grave questions and perplexing problems so vitally affecting national 
welfare and world concord, we bow in reverence in Your presence. We 
acknowledge that it is because of You that we live and move and have 
our being.
  Strengthen the leaders of our executive, judicial, and legislative 
branches to make their utmost contribution to the healing of the 
tangled tragedy of our troubled world. Through the lips that speak in 
this forum of freedom, Lord, speak to our Nation and world so that Your 
will may be accomplished on Earth. Heal the divisions which shorten the 
arm of our national might in this decisive season. Help our lawmakers 
to be patient and considerate one with another, as You give them 
reverence for truth and a passion for justice.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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