[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11780]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  O God, our provider, we come to You in our weakness, seeking Your 
mercy and help. Give us this day the mercy and grace of Your love that 
we may become all You desire us to be. Empower our lawmakers to accept 
Your guidance, cherish Your precepts, and obey Your word. Keep them 
walking in the way everlasting. Strengthen them so to run that they may 
reach their goal. Enable them so to strive that they may win the 
victor's crown. Prepare them so to keep the faith that they may endure 
to the very end.
  We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.

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