[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2043]
[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, the source of our peace, again at the beginning of 
another day's deliberations, we crave Your guidance and peace. Lead our 
lawmakers. Take away any blindness that would prompt them to travel 
down the wrong path. Lord, lift their hearts and minds into the light 
of Your presence, empowering them to fulfill Your purposes on Earth. 
Help them to hear Your voice above the hum of their daily labors and 
beyond the clamor of the noises that distract them from their ethical 
resolve. Give them special gifts of understanding, wisdom, patience, 
and strength.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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