[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 9815]
[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, whose inward presence means cleansing, forgiveness, 
peace, and power, dissolve the barriers that keep our souls from You. 
Remove from our lawmakers the self-sufficiency that ignores their need 
of You and make their hearts receptive to Your plans. Lord, bestow upon 
them special gifts of wisdom and understanding that they may uphold 
what is right and follow what is true. Increase their faith, strengthen 
their judgment, and quicken their zeal for integrity and honor. Spirit 
of the living God, fall afresh on them. Radiate Your hope through their 
labors, as they expect to see Your best for our Nation and world.
  We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.

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