[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 24]
[Senate]
[Page 31961]
[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, we thank You for this day, for eyes to see and for 
hearts to feel the wonders of Your world. Today, fill our Senators with 
a fresh faith and a triumphant confidence in Your final victory over 
the hearts of humanity. May our lawmakers face these sometimes baffling 
days with the glad assurance that no weapon that has been formed can 
prevail against Your eternal purposes.
  Lord, help them to relinquish any negative thoughts to You and 
receive a fresh infusion of Your hope. Burn away the barriers to unity 
so that Your will can be done on Earth even as it is done in Heaven.
  We pray in Your sovereign Name. Amen.

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