[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5759]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  O God, we thank You for the gift of this new day. Bind the hearts of 
our lawmakers in the tender ties of respect and esteem. May no passing 
irritation rob them of the joys of friendship and fraternity. Lord, 
forgive them if they have been keen to see human failings and slow to 
appreciate the preciousness of the relationships they have forged in 
this legislative body. Today, empower them to show forth Your praises, 
not only with their lips but in their lives.
  We pray in Your precious Name. Amen.

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