[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 24]
[Senate]
[Page 32983]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Eternal Spirit, whom we seek in vain without unless first we find You 
within, may the hush of Your presence fall upon our spirits, quiet our 
minds, and allay the irritations that threaten our peace. Breathe 
through the heat of our desires Your coolness and balm.
  Strengthen the Members of this body. Take their spirits from strain 
and stress, and let their ordered lives confess the beauty of Your 
peace. Fill them so full of Your goodness that they will know how to 
discern Your best for their decisions. Make them faithful leaders by 
Your standard of righteousness.
  We pray in Your Holy Name. Amen.

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