[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 1042]
[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 Father, we thank You that Your mercies are new every 
morning.
  Strengthen our Senators to serve You in fulfillment of their sacred 
commitment. Lord, give them kind thoughts, gentle words, and generous 
deeds. Teach them that it is better to give than to receive, better to 
serve than be served, and better to forgive than to be bitter. Give 
them such grace that they will obscure no truth, evade no duty, nor 
shrink from any sacrifice that will achieve justice and peace.
  We pray in Your wonderful Name. Amen.

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