[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6690]
[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 God, You have been good to us beyond our deserving, 
surrounding us with the beauties of the Earth and the glories of the 
skies. Make our Senators, this day, alert to Your providential 
movements. If their minds are closed to Your truth, open them. If their 
hearts are hardened, stir them. If their ears are deaf to the cries of 
the needy, unstop them. Revive in them a desire to establish new 
thresholds of hope for our Nation and world. Lord, be near to them all 
their days, making them lie down in the green pastures of Your peace 
and leading them by the still waters of Your wisdom.
  We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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